Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14118

    Portrait of Charles Vernon Boys

    Date
    late 19th century
    Sitter
    Charles Vernon Boys (1855 - 1944, British) , Physicist
    Creator
    John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813 - 1901, British) , Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 154mm
    width (print): 111mm
    height (card support): 264mm
    width (card support): 210 mm
    Subject
    Description
    Formal half portrait of Charles Vernon Boys, seated to the left and looking left of the camera as viewed. He wears a white shirt, a tie and a waistcoat underneath a suit jacket.

    Printed on the front of the card support: ‘Mayall & Co. Ltd 126 Piccadilly’
    Inscribed in pencil on the reverse of the card support: ‘21218a C.V.B’

    Charles Vernon Boys (1855-1944) British physicist and inventor, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888.
    Object history
    From MS/928, a collection of Boys’ papers donated to the Society by John V Boys in 2018.
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