Portrait of John Horne and Benjamin Neeve Peach
Date
1912
Sitter
John Horne (1848 - 1928, British) , Geologist
Benjamin Neeve Peach (1842 - 1926, British) , Geologist
Benjamin Neeve Peach (1842 - 1926, British) , Geologist
Creator
Sidney Hugh Reynolds (1867 - 1928, British) , Geologist
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Dimensions
height (print): 178mm
width (print): 207mm
height (mount): 253mm
width (mount): 305mm
width (print): 207mm
height (mount): 253mm
width (mount): 305mm
Subject
Description
Dual portrait of the geologists sitting on a bench outside the Inchnadamph Hotel, Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland. Both are dressed in outdoor clothing and carry walking sticks. Horne is seated to the left; Peach to the right, as viewed.
Reproduced in: The highlands controversy: constructing geological knowledge through fieldwork in nineteenth-century Britain by David R Oldroyd (Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 1990), p.272.
John Horne was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900. Benjamin Neeve Peach was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1892. The two were lifelong scientific collaborators on the geology of Scotland.
Reproduced in: The highlands controversy: constructing geological knowledge through fieldwork in nineteenth-century Britain by David R Oldroyd (Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 1990), p.272.
John Horne was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900. Benjamin Neeve Peach was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1892. The two were lifelong scientific collaborators on the geology of Scotland.
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