'Newton with the Prism' Size:L: 80 x 60cm with Great Castle Street

with Great Castle Street

'What a scandalous shame it is that they are allow'd to take people off in this here kind of way'

built on St James's Mount in Liverpool and is the seat of the Bishop of Liverpool

Cliff Sear

carrying two large pails with a number of smaller jugs attached

'Newton with the Prism' Size:L: 80 x 60cm with Great Castle StreetFanciful historical reconstruction in which the seated Newton holds prism in a beam of sunlight to cast a [monochrome] spectrum on the wall behind. Two women look, one carrying a tray on which is a carafe of water. An orrery is in the foreground. 'Newton with the Prism. Romney Pinx. Meadows Sculp. Published April 14th 1809 by Thomas Payne Pall Mall'. Original: stipple engraving. 1809