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Chemical Lectures

Artist and publisher Thomas Rowlandson British
1810–20?
Not on view
Friedrich Christian Accum stands on a platform at right, in a crowded lecture room, and pours liquid from a kettle into a beaker. The absorbed audience stares at him from a platform at left and a balcony above.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Chemical Lectures
  • Artist and publisher: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
  • Subject: Friedrich Christian Accum (German, Bückeburg 1769–1838 Berlin)
  • Date: 1810–20?
  • Medium: Hand-colored etching (partially colored)
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 13 1/16 in. (24.4 × 33.1 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
  • Object Number: 59.533.1794
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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