Portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) Size:L: 80 x 60cm aged 78 years

aged 78 years

Cattle at Smithfield Market

Original is oil 41

overlooking Park Lane

Poster for the XXth Exposition in the Salon des Cent

Portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) Size:L: 80 x 60cm aged 78 yearsHalf length portrait of Joseph Priestley seated in a green chair with a scrolled wooden handle before a writing table, upon which rests a hexagonal ink well with a quill, a leather bound book and loose manuscript papers. Priestley writes on one of these using a quill in his right hand. Behind, half hidden by a red curtain, is a book case containing bound volumes. In front of these is a set of apothecary's scales, what appears to be a powdered chemical