Engraved by Edw.d Finden from a bust by Macdonald in the possession of Woronzow Grieg, Esq.r.
London, J. Murray, Albermarle Street, 1846.
Engraving. Plate: 155 x 85mm (6 x 3½''). Tipped into album sheet.
A portrait bust of Mary Somerville (1780-1872) a Scottish science writer and polymath. In 1835 she and Caroline Herschel became the first female Honourary Members of the Royal Astronomy Society.
[Ref: 49359]  £45.00