'Scientific researches! - new discoveries in pneumaticks! - or - an experimental lecture on the powers of air'
40 of 46 portraits of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
'Scientific researches! - new discoveries in pneumaticks! - or - an experimental lecture on the powers of air'
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
hand-coloured etching, published 23 May 1802
10 in. x 13 7/8 in. (253 mm x 352 mm) plate size; 10 3/4 in. x 14 1/2 in. (272 mm x 369 mm) paper size
Purchased, 1947
Reference Collection
NPG D13036
Artistsback to top
- 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.
Sittersback to top
- Sir Humphry Davy, Bt (1778-1829), Natural philosopher. Sitter in 20 portraits. Identify
- Lady Charlotte Denys (née Fermor) (1766-1835), Wife of Peter Denys. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Peter Denys (died 1816). Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Isaac D'Israeli (1766-1848), Writer; father of Earl of Beaconsfield. Sitter in 6 portraits. Identify
- Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Bt (1752-1822), Natural philosopher and antiquary. Sitter in 13 portraits. Identify
- Sir John Coxe Hippisley, 1st Bt (1748-1825), Politician and diplomat. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Frederica Augusta Locke (née Schaub) (1750-1832), Wife of William Locke of Norbury. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- George Fermor, 3rd Earl of Pomfret (1768-1830), Son of 2nd Earl of Pomfret. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
- Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford (1753-1814), Scientist; founder of the Royal Institution. Sitter in 9 portraits. Identify
- William Sotheby (1757-1833), Poet and classicist. Sitter associated with 3 portraits. Identify
- Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753-1816), Scientist and politician; MP for Wycombe. Sitter associated with 46 portraits. Identify
- George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland (1786-1861), President of the British Institution. Sitter associated with 12 portraits. Identify
- Tholdal (active 1796-1802), German attaché. Sitter associated with 2 portraits. Identify
- Thomas Young (1773-1829), Physician, physicist and Egyptologist. Sitter associated with 7 portraits. Identify
Linked publicationsback to top
- Holmes, Richard, The Romantic Poets and Their Circle, 2013, p. 90
- Holmes, Richard, Insights: The Romantic Poets and Their Circle, 2005, p. 75
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1802back to top
Current affairs
After returning from Naples, Nelson tours England with the diplomat and antiquarian Sir William Hamilton and his wife Emma, with whom he was having an affair. With Nelson's status confirmed as a national hero, their reception outrivals that of the King.Extensive strikes in government shipyards led by John Gast.
Art and science
Francis Jeffrey, MP and arbiter of literary taste, co-founds the Edinburgh Review, the influential Whig quarterly which voiced strong criticism of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey.The Exchange, where stocks were traded, is rebuilt to cope with an increase in business during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
International
Peace of Amiens; Britain finally agrees to unpopular peace, leaving France the chief power in Europe and returning recent British colonial acquisitions.Napoleon is declared First Consul of the French Empire for life.
English flock to see the international war plunder now on display at the Louvre in Paris.
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