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
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.
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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