Credit: ©The Royal Society
                             
                         
                     
                         
                         
                             
                                 Image number: RS.104
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Portrait of John George Appold
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                                after 1853
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                John George Appold (1800 - 1868, British) , Mechanical engineer
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Creator - Organisation
                            
                            
                                Hennah & Kent , Photographer
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (print): 130mm
width (print): 111mm
height (mount): 285mm
width (mount): 227mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 111mm
height (mount): 285mm
width (mount): 227mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Half length study of Appold, seated, facing the viewer’s right and holding a book in his left hand. 
Embossed oval stamp below: “BRIGHTON TALBOTYPE GALLERY (HENNAH & KENT) BY LICENSE OF THE PATENTEE 108 KING’S ROAD BRIGHTON.” In pencil lower left “J G Appold”. .
J G Appold was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1853.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Embossed oval stamp below: “BRIGHTON TALBOTYPE GALLERY (HENNAH & KENT) BY LICENSE OF THE PATENTEE 108 KING’S ROAD BRIGHTON.” In pencil lower left “J G Appold”. .
J G Appold was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1853.
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                                BRIGHTON TALBOTYPE GALLERY (HENNAH & KENT) BY LICENSE OF THE PATENTEE 108 KING’S ROAD BRIGHTON
J G Appold
Sir Chas Lyell 7161a
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            J G Appold
Sir Chas Lyell 7161a
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