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Print (?Photogravure) of Sir William Huggins as President of the Royal Society, from a Painting by John Collier, 1905

Inventory Number 47412


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.47412

Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, in 2001, per Dr John Sanders.
Primary inscriptions
"SIR · WILLIAM · HUGGINS · K·C·B : O·M : P·R·S· · AETAT · SI ·", in image. "John Collier 1904", in image. "John Collier" and "William Huggins", genuine signatures in pencil, below image.
Physical material
paper
wood
canvas
Object type
Print
Dimensions
Height: 612mm Width: 474mm
Inventory No
47412
Accession Number
2001-5/3

Description

High quality (photogravure?) portrait print of Sir William Huggins as President of the Royal Society, aged 81. Print is mounted onto canvas and a stretcher-frame. Print and canvas in good condition, though some surface damage to mount.