Portrait of James Watt (1736-1819)
1910
- Title
- Portrait of James Watt (1736-1819)
- Collection
- Caltech Images Collection
- Series
- Fine Art Photographs
- Identifier
- FA-PR-0123
- Dates
- 1910
- Extents
- 1 photographs
- Abstract
- Photogravure reproduction after an oil painting of the Scottish inventor and engineer James Watt, seated at a desk, with the plans of a rotative beam engine and a 1788 condenser with a wooden frame draped across the desk. The oil painting was done in 1792 by Swedish painter Carl Fredrik von Breda (1759-1818) when the artist visited Watt in Birmingham. The original is on display in Britain’s National Portrait Gallery. Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin, ca 1910.