List of Illustrations
Fig. 1. The electrostatic generator on display at the Paris Electrical Exhibition, 1881 (Teylers
Museum, Haarlem)
Fig.2. Martinus van Marum, painting by Charles Howard Hodges, 1826 (Teylers Museum,
Haarlem, KS1999)
Fig.3. Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, painting by Wybrand Hendriks, 1787 (Teylers Museum,
Haarlem, KS281)
Fig.4. The Oval Room, painting by Wybrand Hendriks, c. 1810 (Teylers Museum, Haarlem,
KS009)
Fig.5. The electrostatic generator as depicted on a print in van Marum’s “Description”,
published in 1787 (Teylers Museum, Haarlem)
Fig.6. Volkert Simon Maarten van der Willigen, c. 1860 (Teylers Museum, Haarlem, FF010)
Fig.7. The First Art Gallery, drawing by Johan Conrad Greive, 1862 (Teylers Museum,
Haarlem, DD042d)
Fig.8. The entrance to Teylers Museum after 1885 (Teylers Museum, Haarlem, ANI59)
Fig.9. One of the rooms for palaeontological and mineralogical collections in the new annex
to Teylers Museum, after 1885 (Teylers Museum, Haarlem, AF608)
Fig. 10. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928) in his private study in Haarlem, 1926 (Teylers
Museum, Haarlem)