Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.8158

    Portrait of Samuel Peace Pratt

    Date
    1855
    Sitter
    Samuel Peace Pratt (1789 - 1863, British) , Naturalist
    Creator - Organisation
    Maull & Polyblank, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 200mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > mineral
    Description
    Three-quarter length seated studio portrait of Samuel Peace Pratt in a dark three-piece suit with a white shirt and black bowtie. He is turned slightly to his left and holds a small geological specimen in his left hand, with a larger rock sample on table beside him. The rock is seen next to a large book, indicating his knowledge of geology and conchology.

    Inscribed below: ‘Photographed by Messrs Maull & Co London.’

    Samuel Peace Pratt (1789 - 1863), British naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1842.
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