Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.911
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    Portrait of Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny

    Date
    1856-1860
    Sitter
    Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1795 - 1867, British) , Chemist and Botanist, Chemist
    Creator - Organisation
    Hills , Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 197mm
    width (print): 149mm
    height (mount): 295mm
    width (mount): 243mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three quarter length studio portrait of Daubeny, seated, wearing academic robes. Daubeny wears spectacles and is posed with hands lightly clasped on his lap. Behind, a book rests on a round table.

    Signed below “Charles Daubeny” and embossed “HILLS PHOTOGRAPHER OXFORD”. Inscribed in pencil verso "Professor Daubeny D.D F.R.S; F.G.S. Natural History Oxford.” Initialled in ink “JR”.

    Charles G B Daubeny was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1822.
    Transcription
    HILLS PHOTOGRAPHER OXFORD
    Charles Daubeny
    Professor Daubeny D.D F.R.S; F.G.S. Natural History Oxford
    JR
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