Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18073

    Portrait of James Glaisher

    Date
    1850s
    Sitter
    James Glaisher (1809 - 1903, British) , Meteorologist
    Creator - Organisation
    Maull & Polyblank, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 200mm
    width (print): 145mm
    Subject
    Content object
    furniture
       > chair
    Description
    Seated portrait of James Glaisher turned to the left [as viewed]. He wears a white shirt and cravat underneath a dark dinner jacket, and looks out to the left of the camera.

    Inscribed below: ‘Photographed by Messrs Maull & Co. London'

    James Glaisher (1809-1903) British meteorologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1849.
    Associated place
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