Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18871

    Portrait of William Odling

    Date
    late-1870s
    Sitter
    William Odling (1829 - 1921, British) , Chemist
    Creator
    Henri Claudet (1829 - 1880, British) , Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 150mm
    width (print): 103mm
    height (mount): 163mm
    width (mount): 106mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Half-length studio portrait of William Odling, seated in an armchair, half-turned to the left as viewed. A desk with drawers stands to the sitter’s right, with books, and a curtain behind.

    Paper label verso: ‘MR. H. CLAUDET, Photographer to Her Majesty, 107, REGENT STREET, LONDON. No. 26133a. Copies of this portrait may be had by sending the above number’.

    William Odling (1829-1921) British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1859.

    Henri Claudet (1828-1880) British photographer, was the son of Antoine Claudet FRS. The Regent Street studio in London bearing his name operated during the period 1867-1881.
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