- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Morgan & Kidd
- Provenance
- Transferred from the University Observatory (Department of Astrophysics), Oxford. From University Observatory box 3; formerly in album. Originally belonging to H. H. Turner.
- Primary inscriptions
- Printed photographer's details on front and back of mount.
- Other inscriptions
- Identifying incription on back.
- Dimensions
- Height: 144mm Width: 103mm
- Inventory No
- 49808
Description
Albumen print (?or woodburytype) mounted on card, cabinet format. 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. Even brown colour. One of three versions of this famous photograph; see also 61511 and 62960.
Formerly contained in H. H. Turner's album of cabinet format portraits of Royal Observatory staff and other astronomers (13001), now empty. For a list of other photographs not in this album see narratives.
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