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Photograph (Gelatine Print) of Edward Heron-Allen, by Kay Vaughan, 1920s

Inventory Number 13171


Item type
Object
Provenance
Purchased from the Royal Microscopical Society in 1970. Part of the RMS library and manuscript collection. The volume was acquired after Heron-Allen's death in 1943 by Alfred B. Richards. Bound in this form by Edward Heron-Allen about 1925.
Primary inscriptions
Signed by the subject and photographer on front of mount.
Physical material
Paper
Card
Dimensions
Height: 155mm Width: 103mm
Inventory No
13171
Accession Number
1978-708

Description

In MS Royal Microscopical Society 9, scrapbook and letter-book of Edward Heron-Allen, loose in first opening. Photograph (gelatine print) mounted on grey card. Portrait of Edward Heron-Allen, head and shoulders, body turned to right but looking front, soft focus. Signed on the mount by the subject and the photographer, Kay Vaughan, a society portrait photographer of the 1930s. For an earlier photograph of Heron-Allen see 12076.