- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Morgan & Kidd
- Primary inscriptions
- Printed photographer's details on front of mount, and caption 'Sir George Biddell Airy, K.C.B. | (A Photograph taken on his 90th Birthday).'.
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 134mm Width: 94mm
- Inventory No
- 61511
Description
Gelatine print mounted on paper, as if disbound from a book. 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. Strong black and white, with extensive silver tarnishing. One of three versions of this famous photograph; see also 49808 and 62960.
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