Portrait of Gilbert Burnet
Date
19th century
Sitter
Gilbert Burnet (1643 - 1715, British) , Historian
Creator
Henry Robinson (British) , Engraver
After
Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723, British) , Painter
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 135mm
width (print): 135mm
Subject
Description
Three-quarter length seated portrait of Gilbert Burnet in bishop’s robes, his right elbow leaning upon a table, his left hand resting on his leg, elbow crooked. Sitting angled to the left as viewed.
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.410 in volume 4 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text notes that Burnet sat on a committee charged with investigating the calculus dispute between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.
Inscription below: ‘Engraved by H. Robinson. GILBERT BURNET, BISHOP OF SALISBURY. OB.1714-15. FROM THE ORIGINAL OF KNELLER. IN THE COLLECTION OF THE RIGHT HONBLE. THE EARL OF HARDWICKE.’.
Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) Bishop of Salisbury and historian, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1664.
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.410 in volume 4 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text notes that Burnet sat on a committee charged with investigating the calculus dispute between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.
Inscription below: ‘Engraved by H. Robinson. GILBERT BURNET, BISHOP OF SALISBURY. OB.1714-15. FROM THE ORIGINAL OF KNELLER. IN THE COLLECTION OF THE RIGHT HONBLE. THE EARL OF HARDWICKE.’.
Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) Bishop of Salisbury and historian, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1664.
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
Associated place