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- Creator:
- Basire, James, 1730-1802, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1778]
- Call Number:
- 646 802 M243 v.4 pt.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Interior of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, with Benjamin Wilson standing at left holding a torch at the end of a long conducting device, two assistants at different points in the apparatus at right."--British Museum online catalogue and "The scene probably depicts Wilson's demonstration for the King in 1777 to demonstrate his theories about lightning conductors (see G. L'E. Turner 'A Portrait of James Short, F.R.S., Attributable to Benjamin Wilson, F.R.S' Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 22, No. 1/2 (Sep., 1967), pp. 105-112, p.106)."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title engraved above image., Frontispiece to: Wilson, B. An account of experiments made at the Pantheon on the nature and use of conductors. London : Printed for J. Nourse ..., 1778., and Bound in before page 339 in volume 4 part 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
- Publisher:
- J. Nourse
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, London., London, and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788,
- Subject (Topic):
- Electricity, electricity, Experiments, Scientific equipment, and Electrical apparatus
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A view of the apparatus and part of the great cylinder in the Pantheon [graphic] / M.A. Rooker del. ; engrav'd by J. Basire
