- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Presumably given by Lewis Evans.
- Primary inscriptions
- Signed by the photographer on front of mount: 'H W Salmon Son | Winchester'. Inscribed on back: 'Dr Lewis Evans taken 1929'.
- Dimensions
- Height: 191mm Width: 149mm
- Inventory No
- 16161
Description
Gelatine print mounted on grey card. Signed by the photographer. Portrait of Lewis Evans, head and shoulders, turned slightly left but looking front. He wears pince-nez spectacles. Black and white.
Lewis Evans (1853-1930) was the founder of the Museum of the History of Science in 1924, the basis of the foundation being his collection of sundials, astrolabes, and related early mathematical instruments.
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