WP - The Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Redwood, and seated woman
View of trees and three tall tree trunks, probably California
Redwood (Sequoia gigantea), two trunks in the foreground with a
woman in bonnet and ankle-length dress seated apparently on an
upholstered seat set into the base of the tree on the right, a latticelike
frame enclosing the mid-section of the trunk in the centre of the
picture. Sepia photographic print approximately 21 cm x 31 cm,
mounted on slightly larger card. Annotated on the back in Alfred
Russel Wallace's? hand in pencil '' Not exceeding 5 5/8 | 3 1/2''
with arrows indication dimensions. Annotated in an unknown hand
in pencil ''183 | 16348''. No caption present. Possibly a Taber
photo.
Name: Taber, Isaiah West, 1830-1912
Place: USA
Notes: Reproduced in Alfred Russel Wallace's ''Studies Scientific
and Social'' (1900) vol. 1 fig. 49, p. 8, captioned ''The 'Mother of the
Forest' (Dead) Calaveras Grove.'' Date based on the year that Alfred
Russel Wallace was in the USA, but possibly earlier.
WP17/5 Portraits issued by Nature 1873-84
Folder containing 22 printed portraits of scientists, published by
Macmillan and Co., London and issued by ''Nature'' to subscribers
1873-1884. Most engraved by C H Jeens, some by G J Stodart, most
from photographs; showing head and shoulders, full face or 3/4
profile except in the case of Charles Darwin, who is shown in profile
facing towards the viewer's right; Wallace's portrait is not included.
WP17/5/1 Michael Faraday
Printed portrait engraving by C H Jeens, image approximately 7cm
square, centred on a sheet of paper approximately 19.5 cm x 28 cm.
From a photograph by John Watkins.
Presented to the subscribers to ''Nature'' No 200 18 Sep 1873.
Name: Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867
Jeens, C H, fl 1873
Watkins, John, fl 1870?
WP17/5/2 Thomas Henry Huxley
Printed portrait engraving by C Jeens, image approximately 7cm
square, centred on a sheet of paper approximately 19.5 cm x 28 cm.
From a photograph by Elliott and Fry.
Presented to the subscribers to ''Nature'' No 223, 5 Feb 1874
Name: Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Jeens, C H, fl 1873
WP17/5/3 Charles Darwin
Printed portrait engraving by C H Jeens, image approximately 7cm
square, centred on a sheet of paper approximately 19.5 cm x 28 cm.
From a photograph by O G Rejlander.
Presented to the subscribers to ''Nature'' no 240, 4 Jun 1874
Name: Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882
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