Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10637
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Electrical machine at Teyler’s Museum
Date
1785
Creator
Barend de Backer (Dutch) , Engraver
After
Wybrand Hendriks (1744 - 1831, Dutch) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
44039
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 265mm
width (print): 598mm
width (print): 598mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Interior study of the electrostatic generator and associated conducting machinery designed by John Cuthbertson (bap.1743-d.1821) for Martin van Marum.and installed at Teyler’s Museum at Haarlem in the Netherlands. The arrangement is shown within a panelled room (presumably at the Teyler’s Museum) with a spark being generated.
Plate 1 from Beschryving eene ongemeen groote electrizeer-machine geplaatst in Teyler’s Museum...by Martinus van Marum (Haarlemn, 1785).
The plate is inscribed below with artist’s and engraver’s names, the former trimmed and almost illegible: “W. Hendriks delin. B. de Bakker fecit.”
Martin van Marum was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1798.
Plate 1 from Beschryving eene ongemeen groote electrizeer-machine geplaatst in Teyler’s Museum...by Martinus van Marum (Haarlemn, 1785).
The plate is inscribed below with artist’s and engraver’s names, the former trimmed and almost illegible: “W. Hendriks delin. B. de Bakker fecit.”
Martin van Marum was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1798.
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