- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- John Stroh
- Provenance
- Presented by the Executors of G. H. Gabb in 1949.
- Primary inscriptions
- Identifying inscription and date on back of mount.
- Dimensions
- Height: 167mm Width: 108mm
- Inventory No
- 15945
- Accession Number
- 1949-10
Description
Platinum print mounted on grey card, cabinet format. Portrait of Augustus Stroh, seated half length, turned slightly to left but looking front, wearing a close-fitting cap. No photographer's name; Stroh was a photographer himself (see 20919) so it could be a self-portrait.
John Matthias Augustus Stroh (1828-1914) settled in London in 1851, and adapted his training as a watchmaker to become a scientific instrument maker of a new kind, making electrical and telegraph apparatus, inventing the Stroh violin (an electrical recording violin), and constructing the first phonograph to be made in Britain.
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