Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21903

    Portrait of Margaret Huggins

    Date
    1909
    Sitter
    Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848 - 1915, Irish) , Astronomer
    Creator
    Unknown, Printmaker
    Object type
    Library reference
    45286
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 102mm
    depth (print): 79mm
    Subject
    Description
    Full length portrait of Margaret Huggins outside the observatory at Tulse Hill, London.

    Inscribed ‘VIEW OF THE OBSERVATORY’.

    Frontispiece to The Scientific Papers of Sir William Huggins by Sir William Huggins and Lady Margaret Huggins (1909).

    Dame Margaret Lindsay Huggins, née Murray (1848-1915), was an Irish-born astronomer and spectroscopist.

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