Portrait of Lyon Playfair, "Chemistry"
- 1875
Color lithograph reproduces a watercolor portrait caricature of Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (1818-1898), a Scottish scientist and Liberal politician. Number 195 in the Vanity Fair collection, "Statesmen." The print is accompanied by a second sheet with a short biography of the subject (see folder). Playfair is shown as a red-faced bespectacled man in a plain dark suit, clutching a bundle of papers.
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Pellegrini, Carlo. “Portrait of Lyon Playfair, ‘Chemistry.’” Lithographic ink, paper (fiber product). Vanity Fair, 1875. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/x346d432j.
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