Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.564
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    Portrait of John Fox Burgoyne

    Date
    1865-1870
    Sitter
    John Fox Burgoyne (1782 - 1871, British) , Military engineer
    Creator - Organisation
    Wilson & Beadell, Photographer
    Object type
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    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 91mm
    width (print): 60mm
    height (mount): 102mm
    width (mount): 63mm
    Subject
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    Description
    Three-quarter length seated studio portrait of John Fox Burgoyne, looking to the right as viewed. Abel is seated on an upholstered chair with his left hand resting on a covered table upon which the corner of a book is just visible. Burgoyne’s coat is shown open, revealing an honours ribbon.

    Printed below the image: “WILSON & BEADELL, 69, NEW BOND STREET.” Variously inscribed verso, including printed: “Wilson & Beadell, Photographers AND Miniature Painters, 69 New Bond Street, near Brook Street, London W.”.

    Field Marshall Sir John Fox Burgoyne, 1st Baronet, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856.
    Transcription
    WILSON & BEADELL, 69, NEW BOND STREET
    Wilson & Beadell, Photographers AND Miniature Painters, 69 New Bond Street, near Brook Street, London W.
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