Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12435

    Portrait of John Warcup Cornforth

    Date
    1980
    Sitter
    John Warcup Cornforth (1917 - 2013, Australian) , Knight Chemist, Organic chemist
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 202mm
    width (print): 169mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of John Warcup Cornforth, seated in a garden chair, holding a drink in left hand. Possibly taken at Michael Papadopoulos’ residence in Houston, Texas.

    Inscribed on the reverse’78% W. inside 28. 27 picas. Sir John Cornforth’ and stored in an envelope inscribed ‘HOUSTON APRIL 1980’.

    Reproduced in Suburbia-Reporter, Wednesday April 30, 1980, volume 27, number 17.
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