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Sir George Biddell Airy
REPRODUCTION IMAGES COLLECTION
print
J. Davey & Sons Ltd
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Manchester
Mid-Late 20th c.
paper; wood; glass
overall (frame): 391 mm x 310 mm x 13 mm

Photographic reproduction, enlarged for display, of a 19th c. print of the astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy, shown head and shoulders only facing to the left , wearing a thick coat and small cravat plus a pair of oval eye spectacles. As first published in the Illustrated London News, 4 January 1868. In a 20th c. black and gold-coloured wooden glazed frame.


2012.7

Gift of the Marton Library Trust, 2011



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