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JOSEPH WRIGHT, OF DERBY (1734-1797)
'An Alchymist'. Mezzotint engraved by William Pether after Wright, 3rd or 4th state of 4. London: W. Pether, 1775. (P: 460 x 566mm). (Narrow to thread margins on three sides, trimmed to the subject below causing loss of caption, occasional minor repairs.) Framed and glazed.
WRIGHT'S DEPICTION OF THE TRANSITION FROM ALCHEMY TO CHEMISTRY. Wright's painting relates how an experimenting alchymist actually discovers phosphorus, epitomizing the larger transition from the practices of the medieval period to the modern scientific methodology. 'For it was the discovery of phosphorus that stimulated the research of Robert Boyle and his contemporaries into the nature of combustion, and marks the beginning of chemistry as a modern science' (Klingender, Art and the Industrial Revolution, p.54). Chaloner Smith, 'Pether' 44; Egerton 163; Le Blanc, 'Pether' 38.
'An Alchymist'. Mezzotint engraved by William Pether after Wright, 3rd or 4th state of 4. London: W. Pether, 1775. (P: 460 x 566mm). (Narrow to thread margins on three sides, trimmed to the subject below causing loss of caption, occasional minor repairs.) Framed and glazed.
WRIGHT'S DEPICTION OF THE TRANSITION FROM ALCHEMY TO CHEMISTRY. Wright's painting relates how an experimenting alchymist actually discovers phosphorus, epitomizing the larger transition from the practices of the medieval period to the modern scientific methodology. 'For it was the discovery of phosphorus that stimulated the research of Robert Boyle and his contemporaries into the nature of combustion, and marks the beginning of chemistry as a modern science' (Klingender, Art and the Industrial Revolution, p.54). Chaloner Smith, 'Pether' 44; Egerton 163; Le Blanc, 'Pether' 38.
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