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    Credit: ©Robertson Family Estate
    Image number: RS.20039

    Bushy Park

    Date
    1932
    Creator
    Kathleen Stannus Robertson (1874 - 1939, British) , Artist
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (print): 200mm
    width (print): 250mm
    height (mount): 330mm
    width (mount): 370mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    Description
    View from inside Bushy Park, featuring a large tree in the foreground and a small pagoda in the background.

    Inscribed below: ‘K.S. Robertson, 32.’
    Handwritten verso inscription: ‘01572' Put black line around block
    print pure black'

    Lady Kathleen Stannus Robertson (1874-1939), British artist. Lady Robertson likely visited Bushy House and Bushy Park with her husband, Robert Robertson FRS (1869-1949), who represented the Royal Society on the General Board and Executive Council of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) from 1925.

    Bushy House has been the home of the NPL since 1900, when the Government allotted it for that purpose. The NPL was under the control of the Royal Society from 1900 until 1918.
    Object history
    Some of Lady Robertson’s inscriptions indicate that these illustrations were intended for Joseph Ernest Petavel (1873-1936), Director of the NPL in the 1930s, who later bequeathed them to the Royal Society.
    Related fellows
    Robert Robertson (1869 - 1949, British) , Chemist
    Joseph Ernest Petavel (1873 - 1936, British) , Physicist
    Associated place
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