Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14173

    Group portrait featuring Ivan Pavlov

    Date
    1920s
    Sitter
    Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849 - 1936, Russian) , Physiologist
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 147mm
    width (print): 99mm
    Subject
    Description
    A group portrait of Ivan Pavlov and four other men. Pavlov stands in the middle, talking, his finger outstretched as if in instruction.

    An original typescript caption verso reads: “Prof. Pavlov talking in one of the operating rooms. This shows his animated and characteristic attitude when talking of physiology. Other present are Dr. Koupalov, Dr. Zelheim, Dr. Gantt. A candle is shown on the table which was used to operate by when there was no electric lights.”

    One of a group of nine photographs sent to Thomas Renton Elliott FRS (1877-1961), apparently by Pavlov and presented by Elliott to Hugh Sinclair in 1945-1946.

    Possibly taken at the Institute for Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg, Russia. Pavlov was the Director of the Institute’s Physiology Department from 1890 until the end of his life.

    Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) Russian physiologist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1907.
    Object history
    Donated to the Royal Society by the University of Reading, 2012. The University of Reading houses the papers of Hugh Sinclair.
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