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    Credit: ©Halftones Limited
    Image number: RS.22205

    Portrait of Thomas Edward Thorpe

    Date
    Ca.1901
    Sitter
    Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845 - 1925, British) , Chemist, Chemist
    Creator - Organisation
    Halftones Limited, Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 165mm
    width (print): 216mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Full-length portrait of Thomas Edward Thrope standing on a low box at a laboratory bench, using a lens to peer into a container. Various other technical staff of the Government Laboratories at Clement's Inn Passage, Strand, London, are at work.

    Stamped: 'Halftones Limited. 17, Fleet Street, London E.C.'

    From the papers of Thomas Thorpe. Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845-1925), British chemist served as Chief Chemist to the British Government, as Director of the Government Laboratory, from 1894 to 1909. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863.

    Associated place
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