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Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or - an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

Uncoloured print by James Gillray, printed for publisher Henry G. Bohn.

A burlesque on the recently founded Royal Institution, including caricatures of the institutions distinguished members. Sir J.C. Hippesley (the subject of experiemntation), Dr. Garent (the operator), Sir Humphrey Davy (with bellows), and Count Rumford, Mr D'Israeli, Earl Gower, Lord Stanhope, Earl Pomfret, Sir Henry Englefield, Lady Charlotte Denys among others.

Originally published 23 May 1802.

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