Sir Humphrey Davy SIGNED Engraving, Circa 1825

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Sir Humphrey Davy SIGNED Engraving, Circa 1825
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An engraved portrait of the important British scientist
Sir Humphry Davy
Signed in ink below the portrait by the subject, Humphry Davy (H. Davy)
The engraves portrait, executed by C. Cook, is based on the painting of Davy by the British painter Thomas Lawrence (1769 -1830)
Caption: Sir Humphry Davy
Professor of Chemistry, Royal Institution, London
Printed just below the plate:
Left: Sir Thomas Lawrence; Right: C. Cook
Signed in ink at lower margin below caption: H. Davy
It is not possible to determine the date and the circumstances when it was signed by Davy
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The engraved portrait is printed on thick paper and it is probable that it was originally bound in a book.
Dimensions: Graphic: 5.94 in. x 4.75 in; Paper: 9 in x 7 in.
The portrait is of good quality and is clean and clear, as is the signature by Davy.
There are narrow dampstains in the blank margins on three of the sides. These stains would be completely masked by proper framing except for a very small region on the right of the signature
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (1778 – 1829) was a British chemist and inventor. He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity"one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." This paper was central to any chemical affinity theory in the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1815 he invented the Davy lamp, which allowed miners to work safely in the presence of flammable gases. [ Wikipedia]
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