The Honble. Robert Boyle

Name:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691; Taggart, W. T. (Walter Thomas), 1872-1938; Hinton, John (-1781); Helfand, William H.; Cave, François Morellon La, active approximately 1700-1766

Date:

[between 1747 and 1781]

Identifier:

P/B699.8 M

Provenance:

c.1: g. Taggart; c.2: g. Helfand

Subject:

Earthenware; Crucibles; Air-pumps; Compass; Tongs; Scientists

Form/Genre:

engravings (prints)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

F.M. la Cave sculp.; Universal Magazine begins publication in 1747; James Hinton active as printer 1739-1781: Plomer, et.al., Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers...1726-1775; dates in Newgate Street uncertain;; 2 copies; copy 2 cropped at top and bottom. Similar to P/B699.4 L. Air-pump, tongs, crucible, and other apparatus at lower left of image; compass, books at lower right. A cat visible in the glass receiver of the air-pump may be an allusion to Addison's comment in The Spectator, no. 21 (1711), "For want of other Patients [they] amuse themselves with the stifling of Cats in an Air-Pump."; Print

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania)