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The Genius of Light Awakens Science and Art

The Genius of Light Awakens Science and Art

Artist/Maker (Italian, 1727–1815)
after (American, 1738–1820)
Date1789
MediumEngraving with etching
DimensionsOverall: 22 × 26 3/4 in. (55.9 × 68 cm)
Credit LineFriends of Art Endowment Fund
Object number1982.96
Status
Not on view
More Information
Francesco Bartolozzi's print, after Benjamin West's allegorical murals in the Queen's Lodge at Windsor, celebrates British advancements in the arts and sciences under King George III and glorifies the Enlightenment values of reason and knowledge. On the right, a woman peers through a Newtonian reflecting telescope at the H-shaped astronomical symbol for the planet Uranus, which British astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered in 1781 using a reflecting telescope he built himself.
Exhibition History
Dressing the Part: Costumes from the Helen Ward Memorial Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 19, 1987 - July 19, 1987 )
Out of Albion: British Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2008 - December 23, 2008 )
Starry Dome: Astronomy in Art and the Imagination
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 1, 2009 - December 23, 2009 )
The Body: Looking In and Looking Out
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 12, 2015 - December 23, 2015 )
Collections
  • European
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