Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1764) mb-width 1214 Upper Norwood

Upper Norwood

Plan of the City of London and surrounding area showing fortifications erected during the English Civil War

designed by Henry Yevele

Harold Blackburn the city Horn blower will take the position

Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1764) mb-width 1214 Upper NorwoodHalf length portrait of Lavoisier, extracted or a detail from the Portrait of Antoine Laurent and Marie Anne Lavoisier by Jacques Louis David, 1788. Lavoisier is shown at a cloth covered table, in the act of writing with a quill pen. His posture is looking upwards to where (in the original) his wife stood; Marie Anne Lavoisier has been omitted from this portrait. Inscribed above : 'David pinxt. W. C. Sharpe. LAVOISIER. WILLIAM MACKENZIE GLASGOW