Joseph Black, MD
Relief
18th century (made)
18th century (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Joseph Black was a physician and chemist and was well known in academic circles in Europe and North America in the latter part of the eighteenth century. His work had an important influence on Scottish industrialisation.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, low relief portraits in wax became popular in Britain and they were often exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Artists and elsewhere. Waxes were used in a similar way to prints and medals, in order to disseminate the image of the sitter, or, like miniature paintings or silhouettes as portable mementoes.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, low relief portraits in wax became popular in Britain and they were often exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Artists and elsewhere. Waxes were used in a similar way to prints and medals, in order to disseminate the image of the sitter, or, like miniature paintings or silhouettes as portable mementoes.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Joseph Black, MD |
| Materials and techniques | Wax |
| Brief description | Relief, Joseph Black, wax, probably by James Tassie, English, 18th century |
| Physical description | Portrait relief, wax. In profile, facing to the left. |
| Credit line | Rupert Gunnis Bequest |
| Object history | Bequeathed by Rupert Gunnis, Esq. |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | Joseph Black was a physician and chemist and was well known in academic circles in Europe and North America in the latter part of the eighteenth century. His work had an important influence on Scottish industrialisation. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, low relief portraits in wax became popular in Britain and they were often exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Artists and elsewhere. Waxes were used in a similar way to prints and medals, in order to disseminate the image of the sitter, or, like miniature paintings or silhouettes as portable mementoes. |
| Bibliographic reference | Pyke, E.J. A Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | A.84-1965 |
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| Record created | March 16, 2004 |
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