Cartoon, Scientific Researches!
Cartoon, Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air, by James Gillray. Showing a scene at the recently founded Royal Institution, with fashionable people watching a demonstration and experiment. The lecturer feeds a gas pipe into a man's mouth and pinches his nose, resulting in an explosion of smoke from the man's rear. The victim of the experiment is Sir John Coxe Hippisley. Humphrey Davy stands further back with hydraulic bellows containing laughing gas
Picture No
10956073
Media ID
48223604
Size
6166px x 4344px
(6.2MB)
Credit
© The Sharp Illustration Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Cartoon in The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist; with the History of His Life and Times, edited by Thomas Wright, 1873
Date
1802
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