Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.19766

    Portrait of Leslie John Comrie

    Date
    c.1950s
    Sitter
    Leslie John Comrie (1893 - 1950, New Zealand) , Astronomer
    Creator - Organisation
    J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 145mm
    width (print): 105mm
    height (mount): 200mm
    width (mount): 140mm
    Subject
    Description
    Half-length portrait of Leslie John Comrie, turned slightly to the left as viewed, looking directly out at the camera, wearing a dark suit jacket, waistcoat and tie over a white shirt.

    Handwritten verso inscription: ‘L. J. Comrie F.R.S. 1950
    3936A photograph received 28.2.51.'
    Stamped verso inscription: ‘'PHOTO BY J. RUSSELL & SONS 63 BAKER STREET LONDON, W.1. WEL. 1232.'

    Leslie John Comrie (1893-1950), New Zealander astronomer and mathematician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950.
    Associated place
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       > Oceania
          > New Zealand
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