ENGRAVING OF
THE DISTINGUISHED MEN OF SCIENCE OF GREAT BRITAIN,
LIVING A.D., 1807-8.
This Great Historical Engraving represents, assembled at the Royal Institution, authentic Portraits of the following illustrious men:—Watt, Rennie, Telford, Mylne, Jessop, Chapman, Murdock, the first to introduce gas into practical use; Rumford, Huddart, Boulton, Brunel, Watson, Bentham, Maudslay, Dalton, Cavendish, Sir Humphry Davy, Wollaston, Hatchet, Henry, Allen, Howard, Smith, the father of English Geology; Crompton, inventor of the Spinning Mule: Cartwright, Tennant, Ronalds, the first to successfully pass an electric telegraph message through a long distance; Charles Earl Stanhope, Trevithick, Nasmyth, Miller of Dalswinton, and Symington, the inventors and constructors of the first practical Steam Boat; Professor Thomson, of Glasgow; Troughton, Donkin, Congreve, Herschel, Maskelyne, Baily, Frodsham, Leslie, Playfair, Rutherford, Dollond, Brown, the botanist; Gilbert and Banks, the Presidents of the Royal Society at that epoch of time; Captain Kater, celebrated for his pendulum experiments; Dr. Thomas Young, and Jenner the benefactor of mankind.
Engraved in the best style of Stipple and Mezzotinto by Wm. Walker and George Zobel. From an original drawing in Chiaroscuro. Designed by Gilbert; drawn by J. F. Skill and W. Walker.
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Size of the Engraving, without Margin, Forty-one by Twenty and a half Inches.
Plain Impressions, £5 : 5.
Proofs, with Title and Autographs, £8 : 8.
Artist Proof, with or without Autographs, £10 : 10.