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Hand-coloured etching of a man in a dark coat performing experiments at a green table with glassware, a candle, and a globe, with portrait medallions above.

A Philosopher, Coloured Etching After Gillray, 1796

A hand-coloured caricature shows a bent-over, bald man in dark coat pouring or stirring at a green-draped table crowded with glass vessels, tubes, a candle, and a globe. Medallion portraits of two bewigged men, a candle, a snake, and papers with figures float above the scene.

Artist
James Gillray
Date
29 March 1796
Medium
Caricatures Etchings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
3243 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1796.
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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