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Photograph (Albumen Print) of John Phillips, Probably by Maull & Polyblank, London, 1860

Inventory Number 30607

Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.30607

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presumably from R. T. Gunther. The inscription 'Hon. Fellow' indicates a source within Magdalen College, Oxford.
Primary inscriptions
Contemporary inscription on front of mount beneath photo: 'Professor Phillips. | Hon. Fellow.'.
Other inscriptions
The words 'Magdalen' and 'Keeper of the Univ. Museum & Prof. of Geology.' have been added to the contemporary caption in the later hand of R. T. Gunther.
Physical material
Paper
Dimensions
Height: 315mm Width: 221mm Depth: 1mm Weight: 11g
Inventory No
30607

Description

Albumen print mounted on paper. Portrait of John Phillips, standing three-quarter length, turned and looking to left, his left hand resting on a chair back. Curved top corners to print. The print has a purplish brown colour, gold toned. The photograph is presumably one of those taken by Maull & Polyblank in 1860, when he was President of the Geological Society; otherwise its simplicity of style and plain backdrop might suggest one of the amateurs of the time such as C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll).

John Phillips (1800-1874) was Deputy Reader in Geology at Oxford from 1853, and subsequently Reader and Professor; he was also Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1854-70 and first Keeper of the University Museum, Oxford, opened in 1860.

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