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- Title:
Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery
- Date:
- ca. 1768
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 17 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches (44.8 x 59.7 cm), Frame: 20 3/4 × 26 3/8 × 1 3/4 inches (52.7 × 67 × 4.4 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.719
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- apparatus | astronomer | astronomy | audience | books | boys | children | cravat | curtain | genre subject | gesture | girls | invention | lecture | light | men | model (representation) | monochromatic | orrery | paper (fiber product) | pencil | philosopher | planets | redingote (overcoat) | science | scientist | spectators | teacher | teaching | writing (processes)
- Access:
- On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1176
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