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Portrait. John Playfair. Engraving 1816

1816
Academic hood of John Playfair.

Academic hood of John Playfair

Academic gown of John Playfair, Christie and Kilpatrick, Edinburgh

Academic Gown of John Playfair

Mortar board cap of John Playfair, by Christie and Kilpatrick, Edinburgh

Mortar board cap of John Playfair

circa 1870
Cap of John Playfair, college of surgeons and gown of James Middlemass, Edinburgh, both part of academic robes.

Cap of John Playfair; Gown of James Middlemass

Print. The County Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England [at Bristol, 1842]. / Painted by R. Anstell; engraved by S.W. Reynolds. - Published by Thomas Agnew, Manchester, 12 November 1845. - Engraving, mixed process; image [sight] 45x130cm, in wood frame 70.5x142.5x3.5cm. - After a painting 6 feet high x 17 feet wide by Richard Anstell (1815-1885), commissioned by and in collection of the RAS London (permanent loan from Salford City Art Gallery). - Group portrait depicting more than 120 members of the Society, and others, in a landscape setting and arranged behind a foreground of agricultural implements. Including Lyon Playfair, Justus Liebig, John Spencer Viscount Althorp the Society's Founder-President, gentlemen farmers, Scottish farming interests. Breeds of livestock not represented excepting for working dogs, and horses including Clydesdale and Suffolk Punch. Some 18 implements shown, drawn from range exhibited in previous meetings, emphasising primary concern for land cultivation: moulding plough for land drainage; Cottam's cycloidal grubber; Charlbury subsoil plough; Ducie's cultivator; Smith's subsoil; Wilkie's swing plough; dibbling machine, turnip cutter, dynamometer for measuring plough haulage needs; horse hoes; cultivastor, chain harrow, Suffolk swing plough, chaff machine, bruising machine

The County Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England

1845