<i>SURREY INSTITUTION</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1809
notes: label: Description
content: This charming hand-colored aquatint shows Friedrich Accum giving a chemistry lecture at the Surrey Institution in London, a short-lived organization (it opened in 1808 and closed in 1823) that presented scientific, literary, and musical programs for ladies and gentlemen in London. The inscriptions at the bottom read “Rowlandson & Pugin delt et sculpt” and “J. C. Stadler aquat” and “London Pub. Sept 1st 1809, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101 Strand.”
label: Description
content: Augustus Charles Pugin (1762-1832), an Anglo-French artist, drew the architectural features of this image. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), a London artist, drew the people. Joseph Constantine Stadler (active 1780-1812), a German artist working in England, produced the plate. Rudolph Ackermann, a German immigrant whose popular print and picture emporium was known as the Repository of Arts, commissioned the work and included it in <i>The Microcosm of London</i> (1808-1810), an ambitious three-volume work produced under his auspices.
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content: Ref: F. Kurzer, “A History of the Surrey Institution,” <i>Annals of Science</i> 57 (2000): 109-141.
label: Description
content: John Ford, <i>Ackermann 1783-1983: The Business of Art</i> (London, 1983).
label: Description
content: Matthew Payne & James Payne, <i>Regarding Thomas Rowlandson, 1757-1827</i> (London, 2010).
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
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317523
label: catalog number
content: 317523
label: accession number
content: 230391
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 13 in; 26.67 cm x 33.02 cm