Portrait of Augustus Pitt Rivers
Date
c.1897
Sitter
Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827 - 1900, British) , Archaeologist
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
After
Frederick Samuel Beaumont (1861 - 1954, British) , Painter
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Augustus Pitt Rivers in a pale jacket and waistcoat with a dark shirt and tie. He is turned slightly to his right and is shown with white hair and a large, white beard.
Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900), British ethnologist and archaeologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876.
Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900), British ethnologist and archaeologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876.
Object history
Purchased from H Gray of the University Museum, Oxford in 1900. Gray served as Pitt-Rivers's assistant.