Description | Composite illustration, with vignettes and interior views of the Royal Society’s conversazione, or soirée, at Burlington House, London, on the evening of 6 June 1888. One large scene of Fellows and guests in the main Library of Burlington House, notable for showing women visitors; and with five views of specific exhibits.
The figures are numbered and described as follows: 1. Experiments with soap bubbles [Charles Vernon Boys]. 2. Writing telegraph [John M. Richards]. 3. Welsh gold [exhibited by William Crookes, shown with Mrs White]. 4. Phoneidoscope colour figures [Sedley Taylor]. 5. The electric eel [Zoological Society of London]. 6. The conversazione.
Full page illustration from The Graphic, 16 June 1888, p.629. Captioned below: ‘CONVERSAZIONE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY AT BURLINGTON HOUSE.’ Signed lower left 'J. R. Brown'. |