Portrait of Roger Gale
Date
1798
Sitter
Roger Gale (1672 - 1744, British) , Antiquary
Creator
Ignatius Joseph van den Berghe (1752 - 1824, Belgian)
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 165mm
width (print): 122mm
width (print): 122mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Roger Gale, turned to the right as viewed. Gale is dressed in a long, curled wig, a shirt open at the neck, and a cloak. Presented in an oval.
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 as a frontispiece to volume 4 of the adapted set of Weld’s History.
Inscribed below: ‘J. J. Van Den Berghe sculpt. 1798. ROGER GALE. From the Public Library, Cambridge.’. The print has been cropped, and is missing the publisher’s credit: ‘Pubd. 1 May 1798 by Edwd. Harding, 98 Pall Mall’.
Roger Gale (1672-1744), British antiquary, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1717. He served as Treasurer to the Royal Society, 1728-1736.
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 as a frontispiece to volume 4 of the adapted set of Weld’s History.
Inscribed below: ‘J. J. Van Den Berghe sculpt. 1798. ROGER GALE. From the Public Library, Cambridge.’. The print has been cropped, and is missing the publisher’s credit: ‘Pubd. 1 May 1798 by Edwd. Harding, 98 Pall Mall’.
Roger Gale (1672-1744), British antiquary, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1717. He served as Treasurer to the Royal Society, 1728-1736.
Object history
Print from Charles Richard Weld's A history of the Royal Society, vol. 4... (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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