James TassieScottish
Joseph Black, MD
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Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
Joseph Black was a physician and chemist and was well known in academic circles in Europe and North America in the latter part of the eighteenth century. His work had an important influence on Scottish industrialisation.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, low relief portraits in wax became popular in Britain and they were often exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Artists and elsewhere. Waxes were used in a similar way to prints and medals, in order to disseminate the image of the sitter, or, like miniature paintings or silhouettes as portable mementoes.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- A.84-1965
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
