Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.313
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Portrait of Archibald Billing
Date
ca. 1870
Sitter
Archibald Billing (1791 - 1881, British) , Physician
Creator - Organisation
Wilson & Beadell, Photographer
Object type
Image reference
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 93mm
width (print): 60mm
height (mount): 103mm
width (mount): 62mm
width (print): 60mm
height (mount): 103mm
width (mount): 62mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders studio portrait of Archibald Billing, apparently seated with his body half-turned to the left as viewed, but eyes facing to camera.
Inscribed below the image: “WILSON & BEADELL Photographers to the Queen”, partly obscured by the print. The reverse is variously inscribed: printed “WILSON & BEADELL 69, NEW BOND STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS TO THE QUEEN.” A crown motif appears front and back.
Archibald Billing was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1844.
Inscribed below the image: “WILSON & BEADELL Photographers to the Queen”, partly obscured by the print. The reverse is variously inscribed: printed “WILSON & BEADELL 69, NEW BOND STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS TO THE QUEEN.” A crown motif appears front and back.
Archibald Billing was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1844.
Transcription
WILSON & BEADELL Photographers to the Queen
WILSON & BEADELL 69, NEW BOND STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS TO THE QUEEN
WILSON & BEADELL 69, NEW BOND STREET PHOTOGRAPHERS TO THE QUEEN
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