File:PriestleyFuseli.jpg

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Artist

Charles Turner (1774–1857)
Description	English engraver and draughtsman
Date of birth/death	31 August 1774	1 August 1857
Location of birth	Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Work location	London
Authority control	WorldCat



Alternative names	Deutsch: Johann Heinrich Füssli
Description	Swiss painter
Date of birth/death	6 February 1741	16 April 1825
Location of birth/death	Zürich	Putney Hill, London
Work location	Switzerland, England
Authority control	WorldCat

Description

" Engraving by Charles Turner after a painting by Henry Fuseli. P/P933.28a M (not scanned) is a photomechanical reproduction of this image, originally published in the Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 16, No. 12, December, 1939, and includes this explanatory paragraph: This, the largest oil portrait of Dr. Priestley, (three feet four inches by four feet two inches) was painted for Joseph Johnson, bookseller and publisher of Priestley's works, in the year 1783, while Dr. Priestley was Johnson's guest. An engraving was made of the Fuseli portrait by C. Turner, and published -- one hundred copies only -- in October, 1836, by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London. A copy of this rare engraving was recently presented to the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection by Mrs. Ida M. Priestley of England."

Date

Painted c. 1783 and engraved in 1836

Source/Photographer

UPenn

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