Fields of Influence: Conjunctions of Artists and Scientists 1815-1860James Hamilton The distinction between 'Artist' and 'Scientist', so plain to our twenty-first-century eyes, had not fully evolved in the early and middle nineteenth century. In fact, it can be argued that there was barely a division at all, but a community of interchange and understanding, and palpable, constructive friendships between artists and 'natural philosophers', as scientists were called in the early nineteenth century.A central purpose of this book is to show something of the pattern of interchange between artists and scientists. From this starting point the contributors have tackled a fascinating range of subjects - the roots of Humphry Davy's visions and visionary writing; the strong scientific undertow in the paintings of John Martin; John Constable's knowledge of the Beaufort Scale at the time he painted his sky studies; the genesis of the portrait collections of learned societies in nineteenth-century London; and the work of Harriet Jane Moore, a shadowy figure in the worlds of art and science, but the painter of a unique series of watercolour interiors of Michael Faraday's laboratory at the Royal Institution. |
Contents
Artists scientists and events | 1 |
Davys visions | 31 |
John Constable and the Beaufort windscale | 93 |
Harriet Jane Moore Michael Faraday | 111 |
forging learned society | 129 |
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Alps artists Babbage Beaufort became breeze British Buckland bust Cambridge canvas London Catalogue of Portraits Charles Lyell Chemical Laboratory Chemistry Clarissa clouds Coleridge Colour Plate Consolations in Travel Constable's Council Minutes David Davy's Dawson Turner Deluge electric engraving exhibition Fellow Force Frank A.J.L. James gale geology Gideon Mantell Harriet Moore Hawkins Henry Fuseli Ibid J.M.W. Turner John Constable John Martin learned society lecture letter Linnean Society Linnean Society Archives magnetic Manfred Mary Somerville Michael Faraday Moore's Museum National Portrait Gallery nature nineteenth century Oil on canvas Oxford painter painting Pickersgill picture portrait collecting Portrait files Portrait of Sir President published recorded Royal Academy Royal Institution Royal Society Royal Society Archives Royal Society Catalogue Sadak scientific scientists Sir Humphry Davy Sir Joseph Banks sky studies sublime Tate Gallery theories Thomas Phillips University Press vision weather Weinglass William Brockedon wind scale wrote
References to this book
A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution James Hamilton No preview available - 2002 |