Portrait of Asa Gray (1810-1888) Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman

in a public house

The third lighthouse was built following the destruction of earlier versions designed by Henry Winstanley (1644-1703)

From front to back

Portrait of Asa Gray (1810-1888) Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Allan ShermanHead and shoulders portrait of Asa Gray in profile and facing to the left as viewed in the style of a memorial plaque or sculpture. A laurel wreath appears upper right. Reprinted in an advertising flyer for the magazine Science aimed at members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1885 1886. The print is initialled lower right 'R. L' and inscribed below the portrait 'ASA GRAY MDCCCLXXXIV.' Asa Gray was elected a Foreign Member