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
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 197mm
width (print): 149mm
height (mount): 295mm
width (mount): 243mm
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.
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
Charles Daubeny
Professor Daubeny D.D F.R.S; F.G.S. Natural History Oxford
JR
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