Crane Court
Date
c.1860
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 155mm
width (print): 105mm
width (print): 105mm
Subject
Description
View of the houses and courtyard of Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, including (facing) the former home of the Royal Society.
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.395 in volume 4 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text quotes from The lives of the Gresham professors…, by John Ward (1740), on the Society’s purchase of Dr. Brown’s house at Crane Court and the organisation’s move from Gresham College.
Inscribed below: ‘The Royal Society’s First House.’. Initialled lower right ‘AHW’. With an associated newspaper article [MS/849/4/9] commencing ‘The Great Fire of London in 1666 once more drove the Royal Society from Gresham College…’.
The Royal Society was based at Crane Court from 1710 to 1780.
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.395 in volume 4 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text quotes from The lives of the Gresham professors…, by John Ward (1740), on the Society’s purchase of Dr. Brown’s house at Crane Court and the organisation’s move from Gresham College.
Inscribed below: ‘The Royal Society’s First House.’. Initialled lower right ‘AHW’. With an associated newspaper article [MS/849/4/9] commencing ‘The Great Fire of London in 1666 once more drove the Royal Society from Gresham College…’.
The Royal Society was based at Crane Court from 1710 to 1780.
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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