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Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of NatureFrankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature

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A man in vest and jacket, looking to his right with left hand at chin-height.

Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. P.R.S., ca. 1825

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ExhibitionThe Birth of Frankenstein

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A 3-story house next to a lake with a sailboat in the water and a man reclined in a garden.

1. Diodati, The Residence of Lord Byron, 1833

Diodati, The Residence of Lord Byron, 1833

Artist: William Purser (ca. 1790–ca. 1852)
Engraver: Edward Finden (1791–1857)
Courtesy HathiTrust

During a gathering at the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron proposed to his guests the famous ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Polidori’s The Vampyre.

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