Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11557

    Portrait of Thomas Edward Thorpe

    Date
    ca.1900-1910
    Sitter
    Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845 - 1925, British) , Chemist, Chemist
    Creator - Organisation
    Elliott & Fry, Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 170mm
    width (print): 114mm
    height (paper support): 298mm
    width (paper support): 216mm
    Subject
    Description
    Full length portrait of Thomas Edward Thorpe, shown standing and leaning with one elbow on a laboratory bench. There are Bunsen burners and chemical retorts behind him. Thorpe looks to camera, holding a jar in his left hand and spectacles in his right hand.

    Inscribed in pencil below ‘Elliott & Fry’. Inscribed on the reverse in pencil: ‘Sir Edward Thorpe’. Printed; ‘Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker Street, W.’

    Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845-1925) British chemist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876.
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