Skip to content
History of Science Museum

Photograph (Albumen Print) of R. J. Farrants and the Peters Machine, 1862

Inventory Number 69566


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.69566

Item type
Object
Provenance
Royal Microscopical Society archive.
Primary inscriptions
For inscription (which is later in date) see narratives.
Physical material
Paper
Card
Dimensions
Height: 262mm Width: 216mm
Inventory No
69566

Description

Albumen print mounted on card (the card slightly damaged). Later pencil inscription at bottom of card. The image shows Farrants seated full length beside the Peters Machine for microscopical writing, an upholstered footstool to the left. Two later copies (66818 and 83179) are associated with it.