Professor_Faraday_lecturing_at_the_Royal_Institution,_27th_December,_1855_RIIC_0006_20110213_BAL_EP.jpg

Summary

anonymous : Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution, 27th December, 1855 ( Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL) Create new Wikidata item based on this file )
Artist
After Alexander Blaikley (1816–1903) wikidata:Q20030176
After Alexander Blaikley
Alternative names
Alexander Gillis Blaikley
Description British painter and lithographer
Date of birth/death 1816 Edit this at Wikidata 1903 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Glasgow London
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q20030176
Title
Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution, 27th December, 1855
Description
English: Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution, 27th December, 1855, before HRH Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and commemorating the Attendance of HRH the Prince of Wales and HRH Prince Alfred, at the Juvenile Course of Lectures, 1855-6., from a painting by Alexander Blaikley.
Depicted people Michael Faraday; Albert, Prince Consort, Edward, Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. There is a key for this picture.
Depicted place The Royal Institution, London, England
Date 1856
date QS:P571,+1856-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Probably a lithograph overpainted in gouache (and possibly watercolour).
The Royal Institution, London,
Accession number
RIIC_0006
Source/Photographer https://www.watercolourworld.org/painting/michael-faraday-giving-christmas-lectures-1855-1856-tww012dae
Other versions
  • Original painting
    Original painting
  • Similar image copied for The Illustrated London News, 16 February 1856.
    Similar image copied for The Illustrated London News, 16 February 1856.

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