Random Inspiration: “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump”
by Matthew Innis |The 18th century was a period of great change in England, both industrially and intellectually, and there is perhaps no painting which represents the scientific curiosity of the age better than Joseph Wright’s masterpiece, “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.”
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