Thomas Phillips to Faraday   23 June 1841

8 Geo St June 23, 41

My Dear Sir

Pray do me the favour to accept the accompanying print of Sr. Humphrey Davy engraved by Reynolds1 from a picture which I painted about 18182.

Who so worthy to possess a memorial of that eminent man as Michael Faraday L.L.D -

Whose friend & well wisher | I remain | T. Phillips

1
Samuel William Reynolds (1773-1835, DNB). Engraver.
2
This was a mezzotint of Davy. See Prescott (1985), 22-3, 31 for a discussion of this and ibid., p.32 for an illustration of it.

Bibliography

PRESCOTT, Gertrude M. (1985): “Faraday: Image of the Man and the Collector”, in Gooding and James (1985), 15-31.

Please cite as “Faraday1353,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 4 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1353