X-Ray Photograph (Early Gelatine Print) of a Frog, by J. Green, Wallington, Probably 1890s

Early gelatine print or toned albumen print, mounted on card, with paper protector. X-ray photograph of a frog, showing the skeleton in good crisp detail. Probably made soon after the announcement of the discovery at the end of 1895, when there was much interest in the new technique. A superior and more professional photograph than its companions 11953 and 11954. The three photographs were loosely inserted in R. T. Gunther's copy of E. Waymouth Reid & J. P. Kuenen, Röntgen Photographs [c.1896], an early published collection of X-ray photographs reproduced as halftones. Gunther participated in the early amateur X-ray experiments by E. G. Spencer-Churchill, whose apparatus is in the Museum.