Credit: © The Royal Society
                             
                         
                     
                         
                         
                             
                                 Image number: RS.9514
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Portrait of Ralph Bathurst
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                                1676
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Ralph Bathurst (1620 - 1704, British) , Physician, Theologian
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Creator
                            
                            
                                David Loggan (1634 - 1692, British) , Artist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (print): 243mm
width (print): 184mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 184mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Half length oval portrait in clerical dress, with decorative scroll-work above and a coat of arms below.
Inscribed “D.Loggan ad Vivum delin.”. The oval portrait surround has the text: “RANDOLPHUS BATHURST M.DR. ECCL. CATHEDR. WELLENSIS DE CAN. REG. MA. TI A SACRIS COLL. TRIN. PRAES ET ACAD. OXON. VICECANCELLARIUS 1676”.
Ralph Bathurst was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Inscribed “D.Loggan ad Vivum delin.”. The oval portrait surround has the text: “RANDOLPHUS BATHURST M.DR. ECCL. CATHEDR. WELLENSIS DE CAN. REG. MA. TI A SACRIS COLL. TRIN. PRAES ET ACAD. OXON. VICECANCELLARIUS 1676”.
Ralph Bathurst was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
                                Object history
                            
                            
                                Noted in Catalogue of the prints in the possession of the Royal Society, by Henry George Plimmer FRS (1856-1918), manuscript, p.8. J.P.Gassiot Collection, purchased 1878.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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