Portrait of John Hales
Date
1716
Sitter
John Hales (1584 - 1656, British) , Scholar
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 135mm
width (print): 85mm
width (print): 85mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders study of John Hales, wearing a doublet, ruff collar and cap. The sitter is turned to the right as viewed, within an oval frame, on a pedestal.
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.91, in Weld’s text.
Inscribed below: ‘Vera effigies doctissimi Viri D. IOHANNES HALES Colleg. Eton. Socij. et Eccles. Colleg. Winderoriensis Canonici.’
John Hales (1584-1656) British scholar and cleric.
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.91, in Weld’s text.
Inscribed below: ‘Vera effigies doctissimi Viri D. IOHANNES HALES Colleg. Eton. Socij. et Eccles. Colleg. Winderoriensis Canonici.’
John Hales (1584-1656) British scholar and cleric.
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
Associated place