Optical effects during the heat treatment of glass Chancellor of the Exchequer Seligmann excudit

Seligmann excudit

She was turned to stone by Zeus

The subject leans his head against his right hand

but a negative view of the shallowness of women of fashion

This is a satire on the Westminster election

Optical effects during the heat treatment of glass Chancellor of the Exchequer Seligmann excuditPlate 4 from the paper 'On new properties of heat, as exhibited in its propagation along plates of glass', by David Brewster, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 46 114. Figures 27 44, individual drawings, four coloured, mounted on a backing sheet. Original: ink and watercolour on paper. 1815