Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.21288

    Portrait of Harry Work Melville

    Date
    1967
    Sitter
    Harry Work Melville (1908 - 2000) , Chemist
    Creator
    Godfrey Argent (1937 - 2006, British) , Photographer
    Object type
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 175mm
    width (print): 120mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three-quarter length portrait of Harry Work Melville, leaning on the arm of a chair with arms loosely folded, looking out at the camera. Dressed in a white shirt, and a black suit and tie.

    Verso inscription: ‘PHOTOGRAPHY BY ARGENT/ GODFREY ARGENT/ NO. 8 LADBROKE WALK, NOTTING HILL, LONDON, W11 3PW […]

    Sir Harry Work Melville (1908-2000), British chemist and academic administrator, was elected a Fel-low of the Royal Society in 1941.
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