Portrait of Stanley Melbourne Bruce
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                                ca.1959
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne (1883 - 1967) , Politician
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Creator
                            
                            
                                Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (print): 210mm
width (print): 155mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 155mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Half-length portrait of Stanley Melbourne Bruce, in three-quarter profile to the right as viewed, his hands are clasped and held in front at waist height. He is wearing a dark suit jacket with a striped shirt. Taken against a dark background his face is lit from the right-hand side as viewed.
Inscribed with a faint photographer’s signature lower left-hand corner.
Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne (1883-1967), Australian Prime Minister, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1944.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Inscribed with a faint photographer’s signature lower left-hand corner.
Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne (1883-1967), Australian Prime Minister, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1944.
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