- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- John Mayall
- Provenance
- Presented by the Marconi Corporation in 2003. Part of the Elliott Archive.
- Primary inscriptions
- Captioned on the printed page: 'From a photograph by Mr. E. J. Mayall.' [correctly J.E.].
- Physical material
- Paper
- Object type
- Photograph
- Inventory No
- 12673
- Accession Number
- 2003-11
Description
Woodburytype mounted directly on to the printed page of the periodical, on the front of the issue for February 1, 1878 (vol.6 no.120), page 41. Portrait of Charles William Siemens, seated half length, turned slightly to left but looking nearly front. Detached from the page and loosely inserted (in fact except for a pressure mark there is no sign adhesive). The photograph accompanies a biographical article (pages 41-44).
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