Lot Essay
Sitters include the architects Thomas Henry Wyatt, Sir John Digby Wyatt (4), Thomas Leventon Donaldson (autographed), Sir George Gilbert Scott, Sir Joseph Paxton and Francis Fowke, engineers Isambard Kingdom Brunel (3, one illus.), Sir John Rennie, Sir William Fairbairn and Sir Joseph Whitworth (3), astronomers Sir John Herschel and Sir George Biddell Airy, chemist Eddowes Bowman, scientist Thomas Henry Huxley (6), physician Henry Wentworth Acland (including one autographed), inventor Baron William George Armstrong (autographed), chemist and physicist Michael Faraday (10), classics professor Joseph George Greenwood, chemist Hermann Johann Phillip Sprengel, bibliophile William Amhurst Tyssen (autographed), Professor Richard Owen (8), reformer and inventor of penny postage Sir Rowland Hill (6), potter Sir Henry Doulton (autographed), hospital reformer Florence Nightingale (7), geologists Sir Charles Lyell (8), Sir Roderick Impey Murchinson (8), Adam Sedgwick (2), David Thomas Ansted, Thomas Belt; John Stuart Mill, courtesan Emma Elizabeth Crouch (3), historian Phillip Henry Stanhope (4), Lady Evelyn Stanhope, and Thomas Babington Macaulay (2).