Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumatics!: or an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumatics!: or an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Author(s):
Gillray, James, 1756-1815 artist
Contributor(s):
Starcke, C., artist
Publication:
[London: H. Humphrey, May 23, 1802]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Equipment and Supplies
Teaching
Genre(s):
Caricature
Abstract:
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.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
1 print : 24 x 35 cm.
Technique:
etching, color
NLM Unique ID:
101393199 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A021550
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101393199