Deputation to Faraday mb-height 4839 North view of Marshalsea prison

North view of Marshalsea prison on Borough High Street

Southwark and the River Thames

' There is a manuscript negative number: '181412c'

Plate IIII from Physico-mechanical experiments on various subjects

Deputation to Faraday mb-height 4839 North view of Marshalsea prisonGroup 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