Portrait of John Couch Adams (1819-1882) Product:Greetings card the Thames and surrounding areas

the Thames and surrounding areas

Maurice Trintignant

The Thames and the City of London from Richmond House

The image is inscribed in pencil

Robert Hooke (London

Portrait of John Couch Adams (1819-1882) Product:Greetings card the Thames and surrounding areasFull length studio portrait of J C Adams, seated and posed at a writing desk with a pen poised over paper in his right hand, the left holding what appears to be a letter. Behind the sitter is a curtain or drape. Printed below the image: 'MAULL & POLYBLANK, LONDON'. John Couch Adams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1849. Original: albumen print, carte de visite. ca. 1860