'Scientific Researches!' [Royal Institution lecture] Finish:Float frame his hat and fiddle decorated

his hat and fiddle decorated with bows

Pictured here at the Palatial Offices in Bayswater

outside of which a man is chopping meat

Interior view of the Automaton Exhibition in the Gothic Hall

The building was completed in 1784

'Scientific Researches!' [Royal Institution lecture] Finish:Float frame his hat and fiddle decoratedInterior, humorous view of an experimental lecture in progress at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, including caricatures of: Sir Humphry Davy (1778 1829) [centre, holding bellows]; Thomas Garnett (1766 1802) [centre, conducting experiment]; Sir John Coxe Hippisley (1748 1825) [centre, breathing gas]; and Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753 1814) [looking on, right, with star and ribbon]. The print is inscribed above: 'Scientific Researches!