Statue of Joseph Priestley
Date
c.1900
Sitter
Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804, British) , Natural philosopher
Creator
U E Wright, Photographer
After
Edward Bowring Stephens (1815 - 1882, British) , Sculptor
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 210mm
width (print): 125mm
width (print): 125mm
Subject
Description
Monochrome photograph of the statue of Joseph Priestley in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Priestley is shown full-length in a tailcoat, wig and holding a folded paper in his left hand. One of his electrical machines is shown behind him.
Inscribed below: ‘E.B.STEPHENS, Sculptor’ ‘JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, L.L.D., F.R.S. / Erected in the Oxford Museum, June 1860.’ ‘Photogd by U.E.Wright.’
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), British theologian and natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766.
Inscribed below: ‘E.B.STEPHENS, Sculptor’ ‘JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, L.L.D., F.R.S. / Erected in the Oxford Museum, June 1860.’ ‘Photogd by U.E.Wright.’
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), British theologian and natural philosopher, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766.
