Two specimens of fern leaf mb-width 4819 Sabine is posed with regalia

Sabine is posed with regalia to signify his office as President of the Royal Society

Cemetery at Bunhill Fields

Newton is in a high-backed chair wearing an open brown coat

'The Rival Candidates'

Two specimens of fern leaf mb-width 4819 Sabine is posed with regaliaA photogenic drawing of two plant specimens, the leaves placed on sensitized paper and exposed to sunlight. Inscribed above in ink: 'An early attempt at Photography from Norwich.' Apparently, an early use of the process developed by William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (1800 1877). The naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose (1790 1872) in whose papers this image is preserved, practised as a surgeon in Swaffham, Norfolk, 1816 c. 1859.