SURREY INSTITUTION
SURREY INSTITUTION
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- Description
- This charming hand-colored aquatint shows Friedrich Accum giving a chemistry lecture at the Surrey Institution in London, a short-lived organization (it opened in 1808 and closed in 1823) that presented scientific, literary, and musical programs for ladies and gentlemen in London. The inscriptions at the bottom read “Rowlandson & Pugin delt et sculpt” and “J. C. Stadler aquat” and “London Pub. Sept 1st 1809, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101 Strand.”
- Augustus Charles Pugin (1762-1832), an Anglo-French artist, drew the architectural features of this image. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), a London artist, drew the people. Joseph Constantine Stadler (active 1780-1812), a German artist working in England, produced the plate. Rudolph Ackermann, a German immigrant whose popular print and picture emporium was known as the Repository of Arts, commissioned the work and included it in The Microcosm of London (1808-1810), an ambitious three-volume work produced under his auspices.
- Ref: F. Kurzer, “A History of the Surrey Institution,” Annals of Science 57 (2000): 109-141.
- John Ford, Ackermann 1783-1983: The Business of Art (London, 1983).
- Matthew Payne & James Payne, Regarding Thomas Rowlandson, 1757-1827 (London, 2010).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- date made
- 1809
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 1/2 in x 13 in; 26.67 cm x 33.02 cm
- ID Number
- PH.317523
- catalog number
- 317523
- accession number
- 230391
- subject
- Chemistry
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Science & Mathematics
- Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
- Measuring & Mapping
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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