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
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.
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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