Deputation to Faraday Newcastle House Tsar Alexander I

Tsar Alexander I

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Back row: Reg Presley and Chris Britton (right)

Plate 88 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain

Deputation to Faraday Newcastle House Tsar Alexander IGroup portrait and historical painting depicting a delegation from Council of the Royal Society in 1857, offering the organisation's Presidency to Michael Faraday, who refused the office. The delegation occupies the left of the composition, facing Faraday across a table. The group is: John Wrottesley (seated left); J P Gassiot (seated, centre left) W. R. Grove (standing) and Michael Faraday (seated, right). The scene is an interior with a marble