Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.7725
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    Portrait of Frederick Augustus Abel

    Date
    ca. 1875
    Sitter
    Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet (1827 - 1902, British) , Chemist
    Creator - Organisation
    Maull & Co, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 91mm
    width (print): 58mm
    height (mount): 104mm
    width (mount): 64mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Full length seated studio portrait of F A Abel, looking to the right as viewed. Abel is presented at a table seated on a Gothic-revival chair. His left hand rests on an open book with other volumes bookended on the table. A wastepaper basket can be seen under the table and a small stool behind the sitter. Abel wears a dark suit and has prominent side-whiskers.

    Printed below the image: “MAULL & Co. LONDON”. The reverse has various inscriptions including the photograph number, “No.34247”. Printed: “Maull & Co. Photographers. 55, GRACECHURCH STREET, 187a, PICCADILLY, and TAVISTOCK HOUSE, FULHAM ROAD, LONDON.”

    Sir Frederick Augustus Abel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1860.
    Transcription
    MAULL & Co. LONDON
    No.34247
    Maull & Co. Photographers. 55, GRACECHURCH STREET, 187a, PICCADILLY, and TAVISTOCK HOUSE, FULHAM ROAD, LONDON
    Object history
    Henry Maull (1829-1914) was a British photographer who specialised in portraits of noted individuals. Maull formed several partnerships during his career:

    Maull & Polyblank 1856-1865: in partnership with George Henry Polyblank
    Maull, Henry & Co 1866-1872
    Maull & Co 1873-1878
    Maull & Fox 1879-1908: in partnership with John Fox (1832-1907)

    The Royal Society holds approximately 600 photographic portraits of Fellows taken at Henry Maull studios between the mid-nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.
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