The distinguished men of science 1807-8: a key to the identities of the sitters. Photograph of engraving by W. Walker, 1862, after Sir J. Gilbert.
- John Gilbert
- Date:
- 1862
- Reference:
- 544960i
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Publication/Creation
1862
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint
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Related material
Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/88/95
Lettering
Key to the engraving of the distinguished men of science of Great Britain 1807-8.
References note
K.K. Yung, ed., National Portrait Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 1981, No.1075b, p.649
Reference
Wellcome Collection 544960i
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Subjects
- Scientists
- England
- Frodsham, William, 1778-1850.
- William Allen
- Henry Maudslay
- Samuel Bentham
- William Chapman
- Richard Trevithick
- William Murdoch
- Howard, Edward Charles, 1774-1816.
- Henry Kater
- William Smith
- Thomas Thomson
- Francis Baily
- Daniel Rutherford
- Nevil Maskelyne
- Edward Jenner
- Joseph Banks
- Robert Brown
- Thomas Young
- William Herschel
- John Leslie
- Peter Dolland
- Davies Gilbert
- John Playfair
- Joseph Bramah
- Humphry Davy
- Henry Cavendish
- Matthew Boulton
- William Henry
- Hatchett, Charles, c.1765-1847.
- Brunel, Mark Isambard, Sir, 1769-1849.
- William Hyde Wollaston
- Joseph Huddart
- James Watt
- John Dalton
- Thompson, Benjamin, Sir, Count von Rumford, 1753-1814.
- Edmund Cartwright
- Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet
- Samuel Crompton
- Bryan Donkin
- William Jessop
- Patrick Miller of Dalswinton
- Robert Mylne
- Alexander Nasmyth
- John Rennie
- Francis Ronalds
- Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
- Symington, William, 1763-1831.
- Thomas Telford
- Charles Tennant
- Troughton, Edward, 1753-1835.
- Richard Watson
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