- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- John Browning
- Provenance
- Presented by Eric Gordon
- Primary inscriptions
- Printed paper label: JOHN BROWNING,/63, STRAND,/London.'
- Dimensions
- Height: 11mm Width: 179mm Depth: 103mm Weight: 115g
- Inventory No
- 93795
- Accession Number
- 1979-2
Description
Mahogany frame with photographic slide. One of sixteen individual astronomical slides by Browning. In chest.
The slide shows the image of a colour spectrum and is titled, "Photograph of the original chart of the solar spectrum drawn and engraved by Fraunhofer".
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