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Print (?Collotype) of the W. H. Perkin Jnr. Memorial Plaque, c.1930

Inventory Number 13442


Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the Department of Chemistry, Oxford, in 2008, per Dr J. H. Jones. Part of a group (the rest photographs) that had been displayed in the Dyson Perrins Laboratory before it was vacated in 2004.
Physical material
Paper
Object type
Print
Inventory No
13442
Accession Number
2008-9

Description

Collotype or similar photomechanical process. The plaque is signed 'Ernest Gillick • fecit • ', referring to the sculptor. Probably the plaque unveiled at the Chemical Society in 1930.