"I am... indebted to Dr. Rollenston for the loan of a portrait representing Davy in Court dress and in the presidential chair of the Royal Society, which, reproduced in , forms the frontispiece to this book. The original is a small highly finished work by Jackson, and was painted about 1823. The picture originally belonged to Lady Davy, who refers to it in the letter to (quoted by Weld in his "History of the Royal Society"), in which she offers Lawrence's well-known portrait to the Society, and which... the Society nearly lost through the subsequent action of the painter."
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The portrait, the National Portrait Gallery, London. Ref: Lady Davy's Letter to in , A History of the Royal Society, with Memoirs of the Presidents (1848) Vol. 2, p. 343. See Weld's footnote 36, pp.343-344, for a curious history attached to the portrait painting.
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Humphry Davy, Poet and Philosopher (Thorpe)
Humphry Davy, Poet and Philosopher by , and edited by Sir Henry E. Roscoe, was published in 1896 as part of the Century of Science Series. In this work Thorpe was able "to condense the somewhat diffuse biographies of Humphry Davy, written by Dr. Paris and Dr. John Davy, and to give, in moderate compass, all the information concerning him that we need to remember."1
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