An original monotone unmounted print portrait of John Dalton; drawing is in the engraved style; depicting the seated subject leaned against a table, wearing period attire and drapery in the background.
An original monotone unmounted print portrait of John Dalton; drawing is in the engraved style; depicting the seated subject leaned against a table, wearing period attire and drapery in the background.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Collected by Dr. A. A. Travill for Queen's Faculty of Medicine.
Printed on front: "Allen Prnx t - Cook.Sc. // JOHN DALTON, F.R.S. // LATE PRESIDENT OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER // (signature) J. Dalton. // WILLIAM MACKENZIE. GLASGOW, EDINBURGH, LONDON & NEW YORK"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-1-5 Box 24
Dimension Notes
Length 27.0 cm x Width 21.9 cm
Condition Remarks
Faded photo and backing paper
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Internet
Document
JPG
Reference Comments
Website: Wikipedia; Document; CD #1
Research Facts
John Dalton (1766 - 1844) was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist, born in a Quaker family at Eagelsfield, Cumbria. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into colour blindness, sometimes referred to as "Daltonism", in his honour. Another term for protanopia, a form of color-blindness.
The three different types of color blindness are monochromatism, dichromatism, and anomalous trichromatism. Dichromatism and anomalous trichromatism can be distinguished even further by three types of malfunctioning cones: tritanopia (blue light), deuteranopia (green light), and protanopia (red light).
Achromatopsia is also known as “complete color blindness” and is the only type that fully lives up to the term “color blind”. It is extremely rare, however, those who have achromatopsia only see the world in shades of grey, black and white.
In the 1950 – 60s this portrait collection was compiled by Dr. Thomas Gibson, and later by Dr. Etherington, from old publications to create a historical medical gallery of pioneers of modern medical sciences for teaching medical students at Queen’s University, Kingston. Many of these prints do not indicate the date of the publication or source. Original prints are heavily glued to thick paper backing. Prints were framed at Kirkpatrick’s Art & Flower Store in Kingston, Ontario, as noted on the blue paper labels on the reverse.