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Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)
Title:
Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! or an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air/ J. Gillray inv. & fec.
Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Subject (Keyword):
Great Britian-social life and customs- caricatures and cartoons
Subject (Keyword):
Teaching Demonstrations
Subject (Keyword):
Chemical apparatus
Subject (Genre):
Caricatures
Publication Information:
[London: H. Humphrey, May 23, 1802]
Copyright Statement:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Order No.:
A021549
Physical Description:
1 print : etching, color ; 35 x 48 cm.
Image Description:
An audience is arranged in a semicircle around a table at which stand three men, one holds a smoking bellows, another is holding the nose of the third and has fitted a tube from retorts on the table to his mouth, an explosion blows out his trousers.
Note (General):
Old Negative no. 53-28
Cited in:
Wright & Evans; 520
Cited in:
Catalogue of political and personal satires...in the British Museum; 9923
Language:
eng
Restrictions on Access:
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Call Number:
WZ 336 G48 no. 16 sol
Record UI:
101393194

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