| Description | Full length portrait of Thomas Edward Thorpe, shown standing and leaning with one elbow on a laboratory bench. Behind, Bunsen burners and chemical retorts, with a white tiled back wall, possibly the Government Laboratory, London. Thorpe looks to camera, holding a round container [?] in his left hand and spectacles in his right hand.
Inscribed in pencil below ‘Elliott & Fry’. Inscribed on the reverse in pencil: ‘Sir Edward Thorpe’. Printed; ‘Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker Street, W.’ |