Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford ('The comforts of a Rumford stove')

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Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford ('The comforts of a Rumford stove')

by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching and stipple engraving, published 12 June 1800
9 3/4 in. x 7 7/8 in. (249 mm x 200 mm) plate size; 11 7/8 in. x 9 1/8 in. (302 mm x 232 mm) paper size
Purchased, 1947
Reference Collection
NPG D12740

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  • James Gillray (1756-1815), Caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 887 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
  • Hannah Humphrey (circa 1745-1818), Publisher and printseller. Artist or producer associated with 720 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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  • NPG D15593: Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford ('The comforts of a Rumford stove') (from same plate)

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Widespread food riots after poor harvests of 1798-9. Theorist, Thomas Malthus, controversially argues that poverty and food shortages are an inevitable consequence of population growth, challenging assumptions that populousness was a sign of national prosperity and power. His thesis contributed forcefully to the debate over the existing Poor Law.

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William Wordsworth publishes his Preface to the Lyrical Ballads; a retrospective explanation of his experimental poems written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It becomes one of the best-known manifestos of Romantic literature.

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Lord Castlereagh, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is the main architect of the Act of Union under which Ireland is merged with Great Britain and the Irish parliament is abolished.
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Napoleon is victorious against Austrians at Marengo and reconquers Italy.

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