Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9838
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X-ray photograph of the hand of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
Date
1 May 1896
Sitter
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830 - 1903, British) , Prime Minister
Creator
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton (1863 - 1930, British) , Electrical engineer
Object type
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 282mm
width (print): 244mm
width (print): 244mm
Subject
Content object
Description
X-ray image of Lord Salisbury’s left hand showing its bones and a faint outline of the soft tissue of his fingers, darkening towards his hand and wrist.
Signed and dated on the print, below the thumb: “Salisbury May 1.96”. With a paper label verso, stamped: “FROM MR.SWINTONS PHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY, 66, VICTORIA STREET, S.W.”. Annotated in ink below this “neg. no.1a.”
The gift of a series of prints is noted in Council Minutes: “Mr.A.A.C.Swinton has presented the Society with a series of Rontgen ‘Photographs’ taken at the May Soiree, and thanks have been given to him for them.” [Royal Society Council Minutes, Printed, CMP/7, meeting of 29 October 1896, p.294.]. However, this one of the set seems to pre-date the others, which were taken at the Royal Society’s 6 May 1896 soiree.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1869 and served as a Vice-President 1882-1883 and 1893-1894.
Signed and dated on the print, below the thumb: “Salisbury May 1.96”. With a paper label verso, stamped: “FROM MR.SWINTONS PHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY, 66, VICTORIA STREET, S.W.”. Annotated in ink below this “neg. no.1a.”
The gift of a series of prints is noted in Council Minutes: “Mr.A.A.C.Swinton has presented the Society with a series of Rontgen ‘Photographs’ taken at the May Soiree, and thanks have been given to him for them.” [Royal Society Council Minutes, Printed, CMP/7, meeting of 29 October 1896, p.294.]. However, this one of the set seems to pre-date the others, which were taken at the Royal Society’s 6 May 1896 soiree.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1869 and served as a Vice-President 1882-1883 and 1893-1894.
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