- Subject
- Print Collection
- 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.
- Object type
- 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.
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