![Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! [sic] or an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air](https://4.api.artsmia.org/800/75863.jpg)
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! [sic] or an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air
James GillrayLinkedCulture matchlcp-29a5a6ae6d8c
- Date
- May 23, 1802
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 75863
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
Gillray's humor could be quite bawdy, but this image may record an actual event at the recently founded Royal Institution. Professor Thomas Young reportedly conducted such an experiment on a fellow member of the society, Sir John Coxe Hippsley, who was said to have inhaled a gas as Young held his nose to explosive ends. England, Europe
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- Credit line
- The Minnich Collection The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip Fund, 1966
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