Portrait of Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon
Date
1800
Sitter
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1638 - 1709, British) , Politician
Creator
Edward Harding (1755 - 1840, British) , Engraver
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 135mm
width (print): 135mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Clarendon, turned to the right as viewed. Shown with long natural hair and dresses in a shirt, cravat, coat and cloak.
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.421 in volume 4 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. The text reproduces a letter from the then-Lord Cornbury, sending a large tooth found near the side of the Hudson River in Albany, to the Royal Society.
Inscription below: ‘Harding sc. HENRY LD. HYDE & CORNBURY. From the Collection at Badmenton. Pubd. Sept. 1. 1800 by Edw. Harding 98 Pall Mall.’.
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1638-1709) British politician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1684.
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.421 in volume 4 of the adapted set of Weld’s History. The text reproduces a letter from the then-Lord Cornbury, sending a large tooth found near the side of the Hudson River in Albany, to the Royal Society.
Inscription below: ‘Harding sc. HENRY LD. HYDE & CORNBURY. From the Collection at Badmenton. Pubd. Sept. 1. 1800 by Edw. Harding 98 Pall Mall.’.
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1638-1709) British politician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1684.
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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