The Late Mrs Somerville
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1872
Materials
Paper
Measurements
202 x 175 mm
Collection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 1291888.1
Summary
Monochrome photomechanical print of Mary Somerville (1780-1872), a mathematician, geographer, astronomer and scientist who wrote many influential scientific works. Somerville College, a college of the University of Oxford is named after her. An oval framed image cut out from a double-sided page and pasted on to the page with a printed label " THE LATE MRS.SOMERVILLE". The text on the verso is visible through the image.