| Ref No | WP/6/8/16 |
| Alt Ref No | WP6/8/16 |
| Title | Papers re autobiography My Life |
| Description | Portrait to the waist of Alfred Russel Wallace aged 25, seated, turned slightly to the viewer's left, wearing spectacles. The image has been cut from a photograph and pasted onto a neutral background of purplish emulsion which has been applied to part of another larger photograph mounted on a card approximately 11.5 cm x 9 cm. The obscured photograph appears to be one of a miniature of one of Alfred Russel Wallace's parents. 'Crop' is written in pencil below a line on the left of the card. Annotations in pencil on the back of the card in an unknown hand , mostly crossed through, include '1557| Cop initials | 175 screen' and '150 tint'.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Notes: The portait, captioned 'Alfred R. Wallace. 1848 | From a daguerrotype' is reproduced in Alfred Russel Wallace's autobiography 'My Life' (London 1905) vol. 1, facing p. 264. (In Raby (2002) it is reproduced reversed). |
| Date | [1905] |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Held By | NHM General Library |
| Extent | Image |
| Level | Item |
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Persons
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| PX473 | Wallace; Alfred Russel (1823-1913); Biologist | 1823-1913 |