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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [3 January 1792]
- Call Number:
- 792.01.03.01.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt, very thin, stands rigidly erect in profile to the right. Mrs. Hobart, immensely fat, completely fills a globe which stands on a rectangular platform on castors, and whose circumference rests against Pitt's post-like person. She looks up at him expectantly; he stares over her head with a pained expression. Beneath the title is etched: 'Definitions from Euclid. Def: Ist B: 4th. A Sphere, is a Figure bounded by a Convex surface; it is the most perfect of all forms; its Properties are generated from its Centre; and it possesses a larger Area than any other Figure. - Def: 2d B: Ist A Plane, is a perfectly even & regular Surface, it is the most Simple of all Figures ; it has neither the Properties of Length or of Breadth ; and when applied ever so closely to a Sphere, can only touch its Superficies, without being able to enter it - Vide. Euclid, illustrated; by the Honble Mrs Circumference.'"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Vehicles: platform on castors -- Mathematics: definitions of sphere and plane -- Literature: Euclid's Elements, Bk. i, def. 2; Bk. iv, def. 1.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 3d, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
- Subject (Name):
- Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A sphere projecting against a plane [graphic].