Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13107
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    Portrait of Martin Farquhar Tupper

    Date
    1886
    Sitter
    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810 - 1889, British) , Poet
    Creator - Organisation
    Elliott & Fry, Photographer
    Object type
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 145mm
    width (print): 95mm
    height (paper support): 216mm
    width (paper support): 140mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length studio portrait of Martin Tupper seated in a high-backed armchair with decorated armrests Tupper holds a quill pen in his right hand and there is an inkwell paper and books on the table behind.

    Inscribed below: ‘Elliott & Fry, Photographers.’ with a facsimile signature.

    Frontispiece to the book My life as an author, by Martin Farquhar Tupper (London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886).

    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) British poet was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1845.
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