File:Faraday Cochran Pickersgill.jpg

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DescriptionFaraday Cochran Pickersgill.jpg	English: Michael Faraday, (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) in his late thirties
Date	circa 1826 date QS:P,+1826-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source	Dibner Library, http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/images/B07069
Author	Painted by H.W. Pickersgill (1782-1875), Engraved by John Cochran (1821-1865)
Permission (Reusing this file)	Artists and sitter died over 140 years ago
Other versions	See page 195 of Hamilton, James (2004) A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution, New York publisher = Random House ISBN: 1-4000-6016-8. for more information. Hamilton says that the engraver was Samuel Cousins (1801-1887) and that the portrait was painted in 1829. See also similar versions at the Edgar Fahs Smith collection (USA) and the National Portrait Gallery (UK).

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	08:21, 23 April 2012		1,155 × 1,443 (486 KB)	Materialscientist	tidied the high-res version from http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/images/B07069
	17:07, 6 June 2008		376 × 467 (65 KB)	Astrochemist	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=Engraving by John Cochran (1821-1865) of a portrait of Michael Faraday by Henry Pickersgill (1782-1875) }} \|Source=Dibner Library \|Author=John Cochran \|Date=1846 \|Permission=Artists and sitter died over 140 years ago \|