Portrait of John Dee
Date
1792
Sitter
John Dee (1527 - 1608, British) , Mathematician
After
Sylvester Harding (1745 - 1809, British) , Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 175mm
width (print): 110mm
width (print): 110mm
Subject
Description
Half-length study of John Dee, shown with a long white beard, and wearing a cap and gown with a ruff collar. Turned slightly to the left as viewed, eyes looking right.
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 engraving appears at p.103, as Weld’s text quotes Sir Kenelm Digby’s appraisal of John Dee as an observer of weather.
Inscribed below: ‘DR. JOHN DEE. Harding delt. Scheneker sculpt. Published as the Act directs August 1st 1792, by T. Cadell, Strand.’
John Dee (1527-1609) British mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary.
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 engraving appears at p.103, as Weld’s text quotes Sir Kenelm Digby’s appraisal of John Dee as an observer of weather.
Inscribed below: ‘DR. JOHN DEE. Harding delt. Scheneker sculpt. Published as the Act directs August 1st 1792, by T. Cadell, Strand.’
John Dee (1527-1609) British mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary.
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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