Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9259
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Portrait of Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Date
ca. 1889
Sitter
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886 - 1975, British) , Physicist
Creator
Edward Ingram Taylor (1855 - 1923, British) , Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (drawing (framed)): 218mm
width (drawing (framed)): 277mm
width (drawing (framed)): 277mm
Subject
Description
A study of Taylor as a sleeping child, by his father, half-face, one shoulder covered by a blanket.
Inscribed on reverse: “Geoffrey Taylor age about three years. Drawn by his father Edward Taylor. Left to Professor Kapitza by Sir Geoffrey October 12th 1976.”
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919.
Inscribed on reverse: “Geoffrey Taylor age about three years. Drawn by his father Edward Taylor. Left to Professor Kapitza by Sir Geoffrey October 12th 1976.”
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1919.
Transcription
Geoffrey Taylor age about three years. Drawn by his father Edward Taylor. Left to Professor Kapitza by Sir Geoffrey October 12th 1976.
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