Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! [sic] or an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air, May 23, 1802
James Gillrayexpand_more
Hand-colored etchingexpand_more
The Minnich Collection The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund, 1966expand_more P.17,347
Not on Viewexpand_more
Gillray's humor could be quite bawdy, but this image may record an actual event at the recently founded Royal Institution. Professor Thomas Young reportedly conducted such an experiment on a fellow member of the society, Sir John Coxe Hippsley, who was said to have inhaled a gas as Young held his nose to explosive ends.
Details
- Title
- Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! [sic] or an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air
- Artist Life
- 1756 - 1815
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.17,347
- Catalogue Raisonne
- See: Wright & Evans, 468
- Curator Approved
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