- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Presented by the Executors of G. H. Gabb in 1949.
- Primary inscriptions
- Inscribed on back: 'Murdoch | Inventor of Gas' (pencil overwritten in ink). Inscribed in pencil on front (on pedestal): 'Murdoch'.
- Other inscriptions
- SEE NOTE
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 150mm Width: 178mm
- Inventory No
- 21431
- Accession Number
- 1949-10
Description
Calotype (salted paper print from a calotype negative) of busts of three Scottish engineers: (left to right) John Rennie, James Watt, and William Murdock (formerly spelled Murdoch), presumably by a Scottish photographer, but very much in the style of W. H. Fox Talbot. They are the busts (or copies of them) by Sir Francis Chantrey, the most recent that of Murdock, made in 1840. Horizontal format. Pale sepia, some speckling, pink stain. The inscriptions, including Murdock's name written on the image, appear to be of more recent date.
For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
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