- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- W. K. Munro
- Provenance
- Probably from the University Observatory, Oxford.
- Primary inscriptions
- Printed photographer's details on front of mount. Identifying inscriptions on front and back, latter reading: 'Dr. T D Anderson Discoverer of Nova Aurigae & of Nova Persei'.
- Dimensions
- Height: 166mm Width: 106mm
- Inventory No
- 50398
Description
Early gelatine print mounted on card, cabinet format. Portrait of T. D. Anderson, head and shoulders, head facing left, vignetted. Thomas David Anderson (1853-1932) was an amateur astronomer in Edinburgh, who discovered the two novas mentioned in 1892 and 1901 respectively.
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