Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18109

    Portrait of Thomas Sopwith

    Date
    1850s
    Sitter
    Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879, British) , Surveyor
    Creator - Organisation
    Maull & Polyblank, Photographer
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 195mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Three quarter length portrait of Thomas Sopwith turned slightly to the left [as viewed]. He wears a white shirt underneath a dark cravat and dinner jacket, his hair short with side-whiskers. He holds an example of the 3D teaching models he used to illustrate regional geology, with four more visible on the table behind him.

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

    Thomas Sopwith (1803-1879) British surveyor, civil engineer and geologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1845.
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