Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19738

    Portrait of William Harvey

    Date
    early 19th century
    Sitter
    William Harvey (1578 - 1657, British) , Physician
    Creator
    George Kirtland (British) , Engraver
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 152mm
    width (print): 95mm
    Subject
    Description
    Head and shoulders study of William Harvey, wearing a dark coat and white collar with ties. Turned to the left as viewed, looking directly to the viewer. Within an oval frame.

    Plate from a grangerized copy of A history of the Royal Society, with memoirs of the Presidents…by Charles Richard Weld (London, John W. Parker, 1848). In this edition, the original two volumes were extended to eight volumes with the addition of extra-illustrations and documents, by Alexander Meyrick Broadley.

    The print appears at p.76, as Weld’s text provides a brief biography of William Harvey and outlines his experiments on blood circulation.

    Inscribed below: ‘HARVEY, Born at Folkestone in Kent 1578. Died at London 1657. “Incomparabilis naturae mysta Gulielmus Harveius, Angliae”. “immortale decus, haud ulli veterum virtute secundus. Morgagni Praef. ad lib 2 de Morb. Sed. G. Johnson pinxt. G. Kirtland sculpt.’

    William Harvey (1578-1657) British physician and discoverer of the circulation of the blood.
    Object history
    Print from Charles Richard Weld's A history of the Royal Society, vol. 1... (London, John W. Parker, 1848) grangerized by the writer and collector Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1847–1916) into 8 volumes, adding illustrative material and manuscript items to Weld's text. The books were initially owned by Ludwig Mond FRS (1839–1909), and according to an inscription by his son Robert Ludwig Mond FRS (1867–1938) they were intended for presentation to the Society. This eventually happened in late 1959, the donor being the politician Harry Nathan (1889–1963), Lord Nathan of Churt.
    Related fellows
    Charles Richard Weld (1813 - 1869, British) , Author
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