Portrait of Hugh Miller
Date
mid 1850s
Sitter
Hugh Miller (1802 - 1856, British) , Geologist
Creator
James Good Tunny (1820 - 1887, British) , Photographer
Object type
Library reference
RCN55534
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 112mm
width (print): 87mm
width (print): 87mm
Subject
Description
Seated portrait of Hugh Miller, facing left as viewed, shown reading a book held in his right hand. The sitter’s shoulders are covered in a plaid shawl.
Frontispiece to The testimony of the rocks; or, geology in its bearings on the two theologies, natural and revealed by Hugh Miller (Edinburgh, Shepherd & Elliott, 1857).
Hugh Miller (1802-1856), Scottish geologist, writer and evangelical was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was self-taught, having been apprenticed to a stonemason, and went on to make significant contributions to Scottish geology and palaeontology.
Frontispiece to The testimony of the rocks; or, geology in its bearings on the two theologies, natural and revealed by Hugh Miller (Edinburgh, Shepherd & Elliott, 1857).
Hugh Miller (1802-1856), Scottish geologist, writer and evangelical was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was self-taught, having been apprenticed to a stonemason, and went on to make significant contributions to Scottish geology and palaeontology.
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