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RefNoPT/73/8/3
LevelItem
TitlePaintings, gas light burners by Wm [William] Tite
Date[1819]
DescriptionPlate 3 containing three figures showing an Argand burner (figures 1 and 2) and a rose burner (figure 3). The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Wm. Tite delt.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'The Bakerian Lecture. On the composition and analysis of the inflammable gaseous compounds resulting from the destructive distillation of coal and oil, with some remarks on their relative heating and illuminating powers' by William Thomas Brande.

Read to the Royal Society on 18 November 1819.
Extent1p
FormatPainting
PhysicalDescriptionInk and ink wash on artists' board
Dimensions225x153mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0118
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0003
RelatedRecordPT/14/2
URLDescriptionDigital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
URLhttps://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8683
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2533Tite; Sir; William (1798 - 1873)1798 - 1873
NA3249Brande; William Thomas (1788 - 1866)1788 - 1866
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