Scientific researches! New discoveries in pneumaticks!, or, An experimental lecture on the powers of air [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Scientific researches! New discoveries in pneumaticks!, or, An experimental lecture on the powers of air [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Experimental lecture on the powers of air
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [23 May 1802]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. May 23d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Abstract
-
"A satire on the fashionable lectures at the Royal Institution. The audience are in a semicircle facing the lecturer's table, which is covered with apparatus. The lecturer, probably not Garnett but Thomas Young who succeeded him as Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Institute in July 1801, and who delivered thirty lectures there between January and May 1802, is experimenting on Sir J. C. Hippisley (left). Holding him by the nose, he applies to his mouth a tube from a series of retorts in which a gas has been made. The result is a violent explosion of flame and smoke from the victim's breeches. Next Young stands Humphry Davy, assistant lecturer to the Institute since July 1801. Holding a pair of bellows with vapour and gas spouting from its nozzle, he watches the experiment with a sardonic smile. Facing the table from the right, Count Rumford (see British Museum Satires No. 9565) stands a little apart from the audience, looking on with a complacent and proprietary smile; he wears an order. On the extreme right the audience are Isaac D 'Israeli, wearing spectacles over half-closed eyes, Lord Gower, watching impassively, and Lord Stanhope, looking intently through an eyeglass. Beside him on the padded green bench is an open book: 'Hints on the nature of Air requir'd for the new French Diving Boat.' (Fulton's submarine was tried in Brest harbour in 1801, and a small vessel was blown up by a torpedo; Stanhope's experiments with steam navigation had been unsucces-ful, cf. British Museum Satires No. 8640.) Two unidentified ladies watch open-eyed. Immediately in front of Stanhope sits Lord Pomfret, enormously stout, his eyes almost shut. These watch from the right. Facing the lecturer sit (right to left) Sir H. Englefield, holding note-book and pencil, and a thin and elderly lady turned in profile, taking notes earnestly, but not watching the experiment. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched at top of image.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Scientific lectures.
1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 256 x 354 mm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark. - Provenance
- Gift of Dr. John F. Fulton.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 25.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 28.2 x 38.6 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- Call Number
- Print00727 copy 1
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Humor
Satires (Visual works) England 1802
Etchings England London 1802 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Young, Thomas, 1773-1829
Hippisley, John Cox, 1748-1825
Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829
Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814
Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816
Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758-1833
Englefield, Henry, Sir, 1752-1822
Sotheby, William, 1757-1833
Pomfret, George Fermor, Earl of, 1768-1830
Denys, Peter, 1760-1816
Royal Institution of Great Britain. - Subject (Topic)
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Nitrous oxide
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Flatulence
Interiors
Lecture halls
Public speaking
Scientific equipment
Bellows - Subjects
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Young, Thomas, 1773-1829 > Caricatures and cartoons
Hippisley, John Cox, 1748-1825 > Caricatures and cartoons
Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829 > Caricatures and cartoons
Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814 > Caricatures and cartoons
Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848 > Caricatures and cartoons
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758-1833 > Caricatures and cartoons
Englefield, Henry, Sir, 1752-1822 > Caricatures and cartoons
Sotheby, William, 1757-1833 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pomfret, George Fermor, Earl of, 1768-1830 > Caricatures and cartoons
Denys, Peter, 1760-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
Royal Institution of Great Britain
Nitrous oxide
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Flatulence > Humor
Interiors
Lecture halls
Public speaking
Scientific equipment
Bellows
England > 1802
England > London > 1802
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
- Orbis Record
- 12515017
- Object ID (OID)
- 17339249