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Photograph (Gelatine Print) of Lewis Evans, by H. W. Salmon & Son, Winchester, 1929

Inventory Number 16161


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.16161

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'.
Physical material
Paper
Card
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.