The Geological Lecture Room, Oxford: Dr. William Buckland Lecturing on February 15, 1823

Lithographer Charles Joseph Hullmandel British
Sitter William Buckland British
1823–30
Not on view
Dr. William Buckland, paleontologist and cleric, appears in this print delivering a lecture at Oxford on February 15, 1823. The interior was located in the Ashmoleon Museum, with specimens hanging on the walls and the lecture illustrated with drawings and prints supported on racks and easels. That same year Buckland resigned his college fellowship to become Canon of Christ Church, but continued to give his annual course of lectures on geology and minerology. To accomodate the growing collections of specimens, they were moved between 1830–32 into the adjacent, more spacious, Clarendon building. In 1836, Buckland would publish his "Bridgewater Treatise," intended to prove "the power, wisdom and goodness of God as manifested in the Creation."

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  • Title: The Geological Lecture Room, Oxford: Dr. William Buckland Lecturing on February 15, 1823
  • Artist: Nathaniel Whittock (British, London 1791–1860)
  • Lithographer: Charles Joseph Hullmandel (British, London 1789–1850 London)
  • Sitter: William Buckland (British, Axminster, Devon 1784–1856 London)
  • Date: 1823–30
  • Medium: Lithograph
  • Dimensions: Image: 11 7/16 × 15 3/4 in. (29 × 40 cm)
    Sheet: 13 7/16 × 16 9/16 in. (34.2 × 42 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967
  • Object Number: 67.539.389
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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