Portrait of Joel Mandelstam
Date
1971
Sitter
Joel Mandelstam (1919 - 2008, British) , Microbiologist
Creator
Godfrey Argent (1937 - 2006, British) , Photographer
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Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Joel Mandelstam looking off to viewers left through two-tone thick framed spectacles. He is dressed in a mid-tone three-piece suit, white shirt and tie.
Signed by the artist ‘ARGENT’ lower right-hand side. Inscribed verso ‘MANDELSTAM, JOEL FRS 1971. Box 3. Professor J Mandelstam F.R.S. Rec’d 9.6.71. Stamped ‘The Royal Society of London. COPYRIGHT: Photograph by GODFREY ARGENT 49 QUEENS GATE, KNIGHTSBRIDGE. S.W.7. Telephone: 01. 584.0269 & 5431 The Reference No. of this print is GRS 5780/C.’
Joel Mandelstam (1919-2008), British microbiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971. He presented the Leeuwenhoek Lecture in 1975 on ‘Bacterial sporulation: a problem in the biochemistry and genetics of a primitive development system.’
Signed by the artist ‘ARGENT’ lower right-hand side. Inscribed verso ‘MANDELSTAM, JOEL FRS 1971. Box 3. Professor J Mandelstam F.R.S. Rec’d 9.6.71. Stamped ‘The Royal Society of London. COPYRIGHT: Photograph by GODFREY ARGENT 49 QUEENS GATE, KNIGHTSBRIDGE. S.W.7. Telephone: 01. 584.0269 & 5431 The Reference No. of this print is GRS 5780/C.’
Joel Mandelstam (1919-2008), British microbiologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971. He presented the Leeuwenhoek Lecture in 1975 on ‘Bacterial sporulation: a problem in the biochemistry and genetics of a primitive development system.’
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