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Richard Anthony Proctor, English astronomer, mathematician and popular science writer, 1883. Artist: Spy

Richard Anthony Proctor, English astronomer, mathematician and popular science writer, 1883. Artist: Spy

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Richard Anthony Proctor, English astronomer, mathematician and popular science writer, 1883. Proctor (1837-1888) founded Knowledge, a science periodical, in 1881, published first as a weekly then as a monthly. From 1873 he lectured successfully in America. Cartoon titled 'Astronomy' from Vanity Fair. (London, 3 March 1883).

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Creator
  1. Sir Leslie Matthew Ward, attributed to: British: Illustrator for Vanity Fair, artist, painter, caricaturist
Subject
  1. Richard Anthony Proctor: British, English: astronomer, mathematician, popular science writer
Medium
  1. Chromolithograph
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  1. Caricature
  2. Portrait
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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3262x5349
File Size : 51,119kb

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  1. 0460001270
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  1. 1158690
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  1. 9122
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