- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Nevil Sidgwick
- Provenance
- From N. V. Sidgwick via the Oxford Chemistry Department.
- Primary inscriptions
- Numbered 4 on back.
- Other inscriptions
- Later identifying inscription [in E. J. Bowen's hand].
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 161mm Width: 123mm
- Inventory No
- 25468
Description
Gelatine print, sepia toned. Candid portrait or snapshot of Ernest Rutherford, standing full length, engaged in sports activities on the deck of the ship en route to Australia for the 1914 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
One of an unusually candid series of photographs featuring Rutherford taken by the Oxford chemist N. V. Sidgwick, who met and became friends with Rutherford on this trip (the others are 26192, 34685, 94495, 99484). For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
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