J.H. van Swinden demonstrating the generation of electricity to the Felix Meritis Society, Amsterdam. Engraving by R. Vinkeles after J. Kuyper and P.P. Barbiers.

  • Kuyper, Jacques, 1761-1808.
Date:
[1801]
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181i
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Van Swinden is the figure seen from behind on the right of the table. The building was and still is (in 1992) at Keisersgracht 324, Amsterdam (letter to the Wellcome Institute from Dr A.A.A.M. Brinkman, 17 July 1974).

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[Amsterdam], [1801]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 44.5 x 55.2 cm

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Lettering

P. Barbiers del. ; J. Kuyper fig. del. ; R. Vinkeles sculp. Lettering absent from this impression "Zaal der Natuurkunde - in het gebouw der Maatschappijë Felix Meritis binnen Amsterdam" and the equivalent in French.

Edition

[State before lettering].

References note

W. Schupbach, The Iconographic Collections of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London 1989, p. 36.
H. Michel, Scientific instruments in art and history, 1967, p. 200, fig. 102.

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Wellcome Collection 181i

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