Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10406
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Portrait of Asa Gray
Date
1885-1886
Sitter
Asa Gray (1810 - 1888, American) , Botanist
Creator
Monogrammist R. L. (1800, American) , Printmaker
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 255mm
width (print): 185mm
width (print): 185mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Asa Gray in profile and facing to the left as viewed in the style of a memorial plaque or sculpture. A laurel wreath appears upper right.
Reprinted in an advertising flyer for the magazine Science aimed at members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1885-1886. The print is initialled lower right “R.L” and inscribed below the portrait “ASA GRAY MDCCCLXXXIV.” Below the main image is what is presumably the original date of publication: “SCIENCE, May 29, 1885.”
Asa Gray was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1873.
Reprinted in an advertising flyer for the magazine Science aimed at members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1885-1886. The print is initialled lower right “R.L” and inscribed below the portrait “ASA GRAY MDCCCLXXXIV.” Below the main image is what is presumably the original date of publication: “SCIENCE, May 29, 1885.”
Asa Gray was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1873.
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