| Reference number | S/0058 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Portrait of McCance, Robert Alexander |
| Artist | Bulman, Marguerite |
| Date | 1995 |
| Description | Head of Robert Alexander McCance, inclined very slightly left as viewed, smiling with a shirt and tie at the neck |
| InscriptionContent | 'Professor RA McCance/ CBE FRS/ 1898 1993/ M Bulman Cambridge 1995' |
| Format | Sculpture |
| Physical description | Bronze head (hollow), mounted on a wooden plinth |
| Materials | Bronze, wood |
| Dimensions | 345 (h) x 195 (w) x 130 (d) [bust]
25 (h) x 190 (w) x 295 (d) [plinth] |
| Access status | Open |
| Access conditions | On loan to The Nutrition Society October 2022-2025 |
| Copyright | The Royal Society |
| Provenance | Presented to the Society in 2019 by the Medical Research Council, on closure of the Elsie Widdowson Laboratory [formerly Dunn Nutritional Laboratories], alongside a sculpture bust of his colleague Elsie Widdowson and a collection of their papers, catalogued as MS/934. See MS/934 accession file for further information on acquisition. |
| Related records in the catalogue | S/0034 |
| MS/934 |
| Copies | S/0034 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA2085 | McCance; Robert Alexander (1898 - 1993) | 1898 - 1993 |