Priestley

• Engraved by W. Holl, after a painting by Gilbert Stuart
  Made in Liverpool
• Image: 5.25 x 4 in.
  Stipple engraving on wove paper
• Not on display
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.023
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

A half-length seated portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), an English clergyman and natural philosopher who discovered oxygen.

Inscription

From a Picture by Gilbert Stuart in the possession of T. B. Barclay. Esq. of Liverpool