Portrait of John Couch Adams (1819-1882) Barrett's London Hat Warehouse standing alongside holding the cockpit

standing alongside holding the cockpit canopy

David Lawson

He was a distant relative of William of Prussia

thus making the caption 'Get thee to a nursery' even more unkind

Portrait of John Couch Adams (1819-1882) Barrett's London Hat Warehouse standing alongside holding the cockpitFull 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