Chemical lectures [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Chemical lectures [graphic]
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1820]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Thomas Rowlandson
- Abstract
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"A young man, [Friedrich Christian Accum (1769-1838) misidentified by Dorothy George as] Humphrey Davy (1778-1829), stands on a platform in a crowded lecture-room, circular in shape, an arc of the wall being shown. He pours liquid from a kettle into a beaker. His table is covered with similar beakers, a tiny retort, &c. Behind him is a door inscribed 'Surrey Institution'. The absorbed audience consists chiefly of pretty women in evening dress and ugly and elderly men. Men are seated on the platform; one is standing. In the foreground (left) a much caricatured elderly man in old-fashioned dress and bag-wig leans forward on his stick, registering anguished jealousy. In his pocket is a book: 'Accum's Lectures' .... Spectators look down from a balcony immediately above the platform."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Date of publication from Grego. A date of ca. 1810 is given in the British Museum catalogue.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.8 x 33.4 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statement of responsibility from bottom edge.
Mounted on leaf 10 of volume 14 of 14 volumes. - Provenance
- From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 28 x 42 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 14
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1820
Etchings England London 1820
Watermarks (Paper) - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
- Subjects
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Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1820
England > London > 1820
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 9305440
- Object ID (OID)
- 11803441
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