Bushy Park
Date
1935
Creator
Kathleen Stannus Robertson (1874 - 1939, British) , Artist
Object type
Image reference
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 300mm
width (print): 380mm
height (mount): 370mm
width (mount): 440mm
width (print): 380mm
height (mount): 370mm
width (mount): 440mm
Subject
Content object
Description
View from inside Bushy Park of an ornate gate with one door open, leading to a path shaded with trees. The brickwork and a window of Bushy House are just visible through the trees in the upper right corner.
Inscribed below: ‘K.S. Robertson, 1935’
Lady Kathleen Stannus Robertson (1874-1939), British artist. Lady Robertson likely visited Bushy House and Bushy Park with her husband, Robert Robertson FRS (1869-1949), who represented the Royal Society on the General Board and Executive Council of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) from 1925.
Bushy House has been the home of the NPL since 1900, when the Government allotted it for that purpose. The NPL was under the control of the Royal Society from 1900 until 1918.
Inscribed below: ‘K.S. Robertson, 1935’
Lady Kathleen Stannus Robertson (1874-1939), British artist. Lady Robertson likely visited Bushy House and Bushy Park with her husband, Robert Robertson FRS (1869-1949), who represented the Royal Society on the General Board and Executive Council of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) from 1925.
Bushy House has been the home of the NPL since 1900, when the Government allotted it for that purpose. The NPL was under the control of the Royal Society from 1900 until 1918.
Object history
Some of Lady Robertson’s inscriptions indicate that these illustrations were intended for Joseph Ernest Petavel (1873-1936), Director of the NPL in the 1930s, who later bequeathed them to the Royal Society.
Related fellows
Robert Robertson (1869 - 1949, British) , Chemist
Joseph Ernest Petavel (1873 - 1936, British) , Physicist
Joseph Ernest Petavel (1873 - 1936, British) , Physicist
Associated place