M0006781: Portrait of Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875)

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08 April 1940
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M0006781: Portrait of Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Wellcome Library; GB.

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Description

Photograph of an oil painting of Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), English scientist and inventor of the steroscope, seated, in a decorative oval frame. The painting was acquired at auction from Stevens on 7th March 1933, Lot 332, and accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 16th May 1933 (CC 8269).

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08 April 1940

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1 photograph
glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers for the item depicted in the glass plate negative:CC 8269.

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Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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