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BURR, T. W.
An albumen print photograph by MAULL & POLYBLANK, 1855. SIZE: 198 x 156 mm. with arched top showing Burr seated at a table, holding in his right hand a framed image of, possibly, the moon.
BURR, T. W.
An albumen print photograph by MAULL & POLYBLANK, 1855. SIZE: 198 x 156 mm. with arched top showing Burr seated at a table, holding in his right hand a framed image of, possibly, the moon.
Description:
Mounted onto an album leaf of wove paper, somewhat faded, glue stained at the top and bottom, clearly from a different series in size and colour to others catalogued here.
*BURR (1821-1874), fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, inventor of a model demonstrating the Precession of the Equinoxes [Science Museum Collection], he observed the occultation of Jupiter by the moon in 1860. This M&P image not in the Wellcome nor in the National Portrait Gallery.
Date Published:
Stock No. 56193
Price: £300.00