Object within Schaaf no. 4234

Portrait of a man wearing spectacles

Image size: h 7.3cm x w 6.0cm

Paper size: h 11.3cm x w 9.2cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: top corners of negative clipped

Inscription: inscribed in upper corner of the negative, 6

Watermark: tman Mill 3

Watermark (expanded): Whatman Mill

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-3742/1

Collection: Science Museum Collection

Keywords: Backdrop

This portrait was probably taken during the same sitting as Schaaf number 1302. He also possibly appears in a group portrait, in Schaaf number 943.

The sitter has been identified possibly as the Egyptologist and linguist, Professor Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884).