<i>Chemistry</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1908
notes: label: Description
content: William Ramsay (1852-1916) was a Scottish chemist who received a Nobel Prize in 1904 for having identified four inert gases: Helium, Argon, Krypton, and Xenon. This colored print shows him giving a lecture, pointing to the positions of these gases on the periodic table. It was drawn by Leslie Matthew Ward (1851-1922), a British artist who produced some 1325 cartoon portraits for <i>Vanity Fair</i>, a popular British magazine. Like many of Ward’s portraits, this one captured the personality of the subject and was signed “Spy.” It was published on Dec. 2, 1908.
label: Description
content: The text above the image reads “VANITY FAIR Supplement.” The text below reads “Hentschel-Colourtype, London” and “(Sir William Ramsay).” The accompanying text begins by saying that Ramsay was “an apostle of the great modern Religion of the Established Fact,” and it ends by saying that “He has hordes of friends, but his real loves are Fountain pens and cigarettes.”
label: Description
content: The Hentschel colourtype process was developed by Carl Hentschel (1864-1930), a Pole who immigrated to England.
label: Description
content: Ref: Morris W. Travers, <i>A Life of Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S.</i> (London, 1956).
label: Description
content: “Personalities in Process: Carl Hentschel,” <i>The Process Engravers Monthly</i> 19 (Feb. 1912): 33-35.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Chemistry
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.330433
label: catalog number
content: 330433
label: accession number
content: 290940
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 36.83 cm x 21.59 cm