Watt's First Experiment (1868)
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Title: Watt's First Experiment.
Artist: after Marcus Clayton Stone (British, London 1840–1921 London).
Engraver: Herbert Bourne (British, 1820–1907).
Subject: James Watt (Scottish, Greenock 1736–1819 Handsworth).
Date: July 1868.
Size: 31,5x23,5 cms.
Condition: some foxing on white margins.
Description: This work imagines the origins of James Watt's fascination with the power of steam--as an adult he became famous for perfecting the steam engine. As a boy, Watt sits with his mother and father at table, pressing a spoon against the spout of a boiling kettle. As the eldest child of Agnes Muirhead and James Watt, a shipwright, shipowner and contractor, Watt first education came at home from his mother, after which he entered the Greenock Grammar School. At the start of his career, he worked for his father and developed engineering models, an ability hinted at by the hammer and box lying on the floor here in the foreground.
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Title: Watt's First Experiment.
Artist: after Marcus Clayton Stone (British, London 1840–1921 London).
Engraver: Herbert Bourne (British, 1820–1907).
Subject: James Watt (Scottish, Greenock 1736–1819 Handsworth).
Date: July 1868.
Size: 31,5x23,5 cms.
Condition: some foxing on white margins.
Description: This work imagines the origins of James Watt's fascination with the power of steam--as an adult he became famous for perfecting the steam engine. As a boy, Watt sits with his mother and father at table, pressing a spoon against the spout of a boiling kettle. As the eldest child of Agnes Muirhead and James Watt, a shipwright, shipowner and contractor, Watt first education came at home from his mother, after which he entered the Greenock Grammar School. At the start of his career, he worked for his father and developed engineering models, an ability hinted at by the hammer and box lying on the floor here in the foreground.