Portrait of Humphry Davy
Date
1745
Sitter
Sir Humphry Davy (1778 - 1829, British) , 1st Baronet Physicist, Chemist
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845, British) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 104mm
width (print): 62mm
width (print): 62mm
Subject
Description
Half-length study of Humphry Davy, seated at a table, upon which is paper, an inkwell, and a miner’s safety lamp. The sitter is shown against a curtained backdrop, with glassware chemical bottles behind. Davy is dressed in a dark coat, with a half-unbuttoned waistcoat and a white shirt and tie. Davy rests his right hand on the paper, his left against his chin.
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.126, as Weld’s text mentions John Ayrton Paris’s reflections on the Royal Society’s organisational name, contained in The life of Sir Humphry Davy (1831).
Inscribed below: ‘SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.’
Humphry Davy (1778-1829) British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803. He served as President, 1820-1827.
Digital photograph of an engraved depictio of Humphry Davy.
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.126, as Weld’s text mentions John Ayrton Paris’s reflections on the Royal Society’s organisational name, contained in The life of Sir Humphry Davy (1831).
Inscribed below: ‘SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.’
Humphry Davy (1778-1829) British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803. He served as President, 1820-1827.
Digital photograph of an engraved depictio of Humphry Davy.
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