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Image number: RS.9245
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Caricature of Cecil Clifford Dobell
Date
ca. 1917
Sitter
Cecil Clifford Dobell (1886 - 1949, British) , Protozoologist
Creator
H. G. Newth (1881 - 1940, British) , Zoologist
Object type
Library reference
Brady Library
Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 205mm
width (drawing): 130mm
width (drawing): 130mm
Subject
Description
Profile of Clifford Dobell, with a musical note. The drawing is on Marine Biological Station headed paper.
Cecil Clifford Dobell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918.
Cecil Clifford Dobell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918.
Transcription
'C.D. by H.G.Newth. ? 1917’
On Marine Biological Station headed paper, embossed:
‘The Laboratory
Citadel Hill
Plymouth’
On Marine Biological Station headed paper, embossed:
‘The Laboratory
Citadel Hill
Plymouth’
Object history
The artist was a student of Dobell’s at the Royal College of Science, London. [Obituary, Mr H.G.Newth’, Nature vol.145 23 March 1940 p.454.]
The caricature is pasted to a Royal Society Obituary Notice for Clifford Dobell bound into a volume of Dobell’s presentation reprints 1928-1949. The papers were owned by Dr Margaret W Jepps and bound in 1956 under the title Protozoa of monkeys and man. Jepps was a protozoologist who collaborated with Dobell on several papers from 1917. She was attached to the Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, during the 1920s, sharing Dobell’s interest in parasitology. The volume also contains letters from Clifford and Monica Dobell to Miss Jepps and an inscription gives her later address as 17 Manor Court, Pinehurst, Cambridge.
The caricature is pasted to a Royal Society Obituary Notice for Clifford Dobell bound into a volume of Dobell’s presentation reprints 1928-1949. The papers were owned by Dr Margaret W Jepps and bound in 1956 under the title Protozoa of monkeys and man. Jepps was a protozoologist who collaborated with Dobell on several papers from 1917. She was attached to the Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, during the 1920s, sharing Dobell’s interest in parasitology. The volume also contains letters from Clifford and Monica Dobell to Miss Jepps and an inscription gives her later address as 17 Manor Court, Pinehurst, Cambridge.
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