print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1882,0909.51-64
Description: 14 reproductive prints in unbound volume, an assortment of portraits of scientists with accompanying biographical texts, part of a series entitled 'The Hundred Greatest Men: Portraits of the One Hundred Greatest Men of History, Volume VI: Science' (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1880). Kept loose within tied red boards with black lettering Photomechanical print of etchings and engravings
Producer name: Printed by: W Clowes; Published by: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
School/style
Production date: 1880
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 360 millimetres (boards); Width: 270 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Sixth of eight volumes in this series. Cataloguing supported by the Pilgrim Trust
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Portrait of: Hippocrates; Portrait of: Archimedes; Portrait of: Galen; Portrait of: Nicolaus Copernicus; Portrait of: Johannse Kepler; Portrait of: Galileo; Portrait of: Dr William Harvey; Portrait of: Sir Isaac Newton; Portrait of: Charles Linnaeus; Portrait of: Antoine Lavoisier; Portrait of: Marie François Xavier Bichat; Portrait of: Georges Cuvier
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1882
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1882,0909.51-64

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