Credit: ©The Royal Society
                             
                         
                     
                         
                         
                             
                                 Image number: RS.6
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Portrait of Frederick Augustus Abel
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                                ca. 1870
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet (1827 - 1902, British) , Chemist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Creator - Organisation
                            
                            
                                Wilson & Beadell, Photographer
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (print): 91mm
width (print): 60mm
height (mount): 106mm
width (mount): 63mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (print): 60mm
height (mount): 106mm
width (mount): 63mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Head and shoulders portrait of F A Abel, looking to the right as viewed. 
Printed below the image: “WILSON & BEADELL, 69, NEW BOND STREET, Photographers to the Queen.” Information repeated verso, with later pencil inscriptions.
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1860.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Printed below the image: “WILSON & BEADELL, 69, NEW BOND STREET, Photographers to the Queen.” Information repeated verso, with later pencil inscriptions.
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1860.
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                                WILSON & BEADELL, 69, NEW BOND STREET, Photographers to the Queen.”
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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