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Jonathan Jones

Cruel science: Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump

Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768 — Science is a marvellous and terrifying sight in this painting of a cruel experiment. People in a Georgian house watch with both fascination and dread as a wild-looking scientific lecturer shows what happens to a bird when you deprive it of oxygen. In a glowing vessel in the foreground lurks a sinister skull. Wright was an artist who moved in Enlightened circles at the heart of the industrial revolution. His brilliant technique makes this a potent drama of light and darkness
Illustration: Photograph: The National Gallery, London

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