Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19991

    Portrait of William Cheselden

    Date
    late 18th century
    Sitter
    William Cheselden (1688 - 1752, British) , Surgeon
    Creator
    Thomas Cook (1744 - 1818, British) , Engraver
    After
    Jonathan Richardson (1667 - 1745, British) , Painter
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 172mm
    width (print): 100mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of William Cheselden, wearing a buttoned coat and turban. Turned to the left as viewed, 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 at p.419 in volume 4 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. Weld’s text describes a visit to the Royal Society by the Venetian and French Ambassadors and an Envoy from the Duke of Tuscany. As part of the entertainment, Cheselden showed wax preparations from blood vessels of the human liver.

    Inscription below: ‘Wm. CHESELDEN Esq; F.R.S. Richardson Pinxit. Cook Sculpt. Published by W. Bent. Pater-noster-row.’.

    William Cheselden (1688-1752) British surgeon and anatomist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1711.
    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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