Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.1916

    Portrait of John Horne and Benjamin Neeve Peach

    Date
    1912
    Sitter
    John Horne (1848 - 1928, 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
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    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.
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