From o pnin1;ng by Henry Fuseli (1742-1US)
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY (1733-1804) This, the largest oil portrait of Dr. Priestley (three feet four inches by four feet two inches) was painted for Joseph Johnson, bookseller and publisher of Priestley's works, in the year 1783, while Dr. Priestley was Johnson's guest. An engraving was made of the Fuse11 portrait by C. Turner, and published-ne hundred copies onlpin October, 1836, by Rrchard Taylor,
Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. London. A copy of this rare engraving was recently presented to the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection by Mrs. Ida M. Prtestley of England. (Confribufcd by Eua V. Armstrong. Cumfor. The Edgar Fnhs Smifh itirmorinl Collecfion, Uniuemity qf P c n n ~ ~ l v n n i d )
