Portrait of Joseph Bancroft Reade (1801-1870) Size:Standard: 6 x 4in View of St Bride

View of St Bride

Original is oil 41

29th October 1976

East view of the gateway to the Abbey of St Saviour

Portrait of Joseph Bancroft Reade (1801-1870) Size:Standard: 6 x 4in View of St BrideHalf length portrait of Joseph Bancroft Reade seated in front of a table upon which rests a book with a clasp and upon a glass laboratory flask and lenses [?] held in Bancroft's left hand. What may be a quill held in the right hand is just visible at the lower edge of the photograph. Bancroft wears a dark suit and white shirt with cravat; a lens is worn by chain around his neck. Inscribed in pencil lower left 'The Rev. J. B. Reade FRS' and lower right