Portrait of Humphry Davy (1778-1829) mb-artist Frederick_Cayley_Robinson 28th June 1990

28th June 1990

A group of men fishing in the Paddington Canal commenting on the lack of fish to be caught

The setting is a theatre and the curtain is just about to rise

was taken by the Dublin Police

including a fruit seller

Portrait of Humphry Davy (1778-1829) mb-artist Frederick_Cayley_Robinson 28th June 1990Davy is portrayed at three quarter length in fashionable Regency dress. He wears a high white stock and white waistcoat with a black jacket and matching overcoat, the latter open to reveal a silk lining. He wears grey trousers with a blue ribbon at the waist and kidskin gloves. The left arm is crooked to the waist, the right rests on a red cloth lined table, upon which rests a miner's safety lamp to Davy's design. A deep turquoise blue sky is balanced