The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints
A Philosopher Shewing an Experiment on the Air Pump
Valentine Green|Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)
- Date
- 1769
- Medium
- Mezzotint; first state of two (Chaloner Smith); second state of three (Whitman)
- Dimensions
- Plate: 19 × 23 in. (48.3 × 58.4 cm) Sheet: 19 7/8 × 25 5/8 in. (50.5 × 65.1 cm)
- Object type
- Classification
- Prints
- Object number
- 49.95.14
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Artist information
British, Salford 1739–1813 London|British, Derby 1734–1797 Derby
Subjects and terms
- Science
- Birds
- Children
- Men
- Women
The Met object ID 359795. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.