Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.2149
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Portrait of John Kersey the elder
Date
1673
Sitter
John Kersey (1616 - 1677, British) , Mathematician
Creator
William Faithorne (1620 - 1691, British) , Engraver
After
Gerard Soest (1595 - 1681, Dutch) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 256mm
width (print): 170mm
width (print): 170mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of John Kersey, facing to the viewer’s right and shown with long dark hair and a moustache. Dressed in a dark coat with a white lawn collar.
In an oval framing device bearing the inscription: “IOHN KERSEY BORNE AT BODICOT NEERE BANBURY IN THE COUNTY OF OXFORD AO. DNI. 1616.” Below, an inscription on a sculptured banner: “Vox audita perit Litera scripta manet.” On either side of this, two open and two closed volumes, the former with mathematical content.
Inscribed below: “Soust pinx.1672. Faithorne Sculp.”
John Kersey was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
In an oval framing device bearing the inscription: “IOHN KERSEY BORNE AT BODICOT NEERE BANBURY IN THE COUNTY OF OXFORD AO. DNI. 1616.” Below, an inscription on a sculptured banner: “Vox audita perit Litera scripta manet.” On either side of this, two open and two closed volumes, the former with mathematical content.
Inscribed below: “Soust pinx.1672. Faithorne Sculp.”
John Kersey was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Object history
Not noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918).
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