- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Morgan & Kidd
- Other inscriptions
- Inscribed 'Simms.' [in error] and 'Astronomers' [in R. T. Gunther's hand].
- Dimensions
- Height: 315mm Width: 235mm Depth: 2mm Weight: 73g
- Inventory No
- 62960
Description
Gelatine print mounted on pale blue card. Portrait of Sir George B. Airy, seated three-quarter length, turned to right and looking slightly right of front, taken in his garden on his 90th birthday, July 27, 1891. This is the largest of three versions of this famous photograph held in the museum's collection; see also 49808 and 61511.
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