Michael Faraday delivering a Christmas lecture at the Royal Institution.
Professor Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution, 27th December, 1855, from a painting by Alexander Blaikley, commemorating the Attendance of HRH the Prince of Wales and HRH Prince Alfred, at the Juvenile Course of Lectures, 1855-6.
Date
ca. 1856
Source/Photographer
Widely reproduced. See Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 2002, volume 56, page 370.
Edgar Fahs Smith Collection at the University of Pennsylvania
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The Illustrated London News, 16 February 1856
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