M0016652: Portrait of Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892) / M0016653: Portrait of Arthur Aikin (1773-1854)

Date:
1958
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/149/96
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Sir George Biddell Airy. Photomechanical print after Lock &
Previous title, replaced March 2022: Arthur Aikin

Description

Two images on one negative: process print after Lock & Whitfield of Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892) English mathematician and astronomer. Related images: V0025959. Stipple engraving by J. Thompson, 1819, after S. Drummond, of Arthur Aikin (1773-1854) English chemist. Related images: V0000055EL

Publication/Creation

1958

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the items depicted in the glass plate negative: 12266i and 421i

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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