- Subject
- Print Collection
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Bequeathed by G. H. Gabb.
- Primary inscriptions
- Main title: "CHEMICAL LECTURES." Below title: "Designed & Published by T. Rowlandson, James St. Adelphi." Stamp in bottom right hand corner: "RA" On the print on paper in the pocket of one figure: "Accum Lectures" Above the door at the back of the scene: "SURREY INSTITUTION" On reverse in pencil: "Sir Humphry Davie [sic] Royal Institution ----------------- [indecipherable]"
- Other inscriptions
- On label on frame "GABB BEQUEST"
- Object type
- Dimensions
- Height: 246mm Width: 344mm
- Inventory No
- 11540
- Accession Number
- 1949-15
Description
Satirical etching on paper by Thomas Rowlandson showing a lecture by Frederick Accum at the Surrey Institution, London. Accum was the Institution's chemical lecturer from 1803 until about 1810. Other comtemporaries who may be in the audience include Rudolph Ackermann, Sir John Hippersley and Humphry Davy.
Highlighted with red and grey wash. Mounted on sheet of laid paper with border of pen and similar wash.
Frame with black moulding, possibly dating from mid 20th Century.
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