M0003504: Portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

Photograph of the earliest known portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), an English chemist. The Leeds portrait is dated circa 1763 and the artist is unknown. The original's location is unknown and this photographic copy was found by Mr W Cameron Walker in the Libray of the Royal Society.

30 May 1933

2 photographs glass plate negatives; 12 x 16 cm

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 2021.

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