Title: Portrait of James Watt (1736-1819)
Date: 1910 (approximate)
Original Format: photograph: print
Description: 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.
Collection: Fine Art
Caltech Archives ID: FA-PR-0123
