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Description: | The University has a small but significant collection of artworks connected to chemistry. This includes oil portraits of the Chemistry Professors Robert Briggs, Thomas Purdie and James Irvine, and a bust of Purdie. There are prints of works by James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson, both political / satirical cartoonists. Gillray's 'Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in PNEUMATICKS! - Or - an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air' has as it's setting the Royal Institution and satirises recent discoveries in science, which allowed gases to be collected and characterised: among the figures depicted are Count Romford, who founded the Royal Institution, Humphrey Davy, who discovered the anaesthetic effect of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), Sir John Hippisley and Dr Thomas Garnett. There is also a series of paintings and prints of alchemical scenes, some after David Teniers, probably collected by John Read, Professor of Chemistry 1923-1963, who had an interest in the history of chemistry and alchemy. | Subjects: | Art CHEMISTRY | Source: | University of St Andrews | Address: | KY16 9AJ | Creator: | University of St Andrews | Contributor: | University of St Andrews | Identifier: | CH:C44 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | MC:C48 |
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