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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 May 1802]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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 Natura...
- Alternative Title:
- Experimental lecture on the powers of air
- Description:
- Title etched at top of image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 23d, 1802, by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street
- Subject (Name):
- 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, and Royal Institution of Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Nitrous oxide, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Flatulence, Interiors, Lecture halls, Public speaking, Scientific equipment, and Bellows
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Scientific researches! New discoveries in pneumaticks!, or, An experimental lecture on the powers of air [graphic]
