Photographic copy of a painting of the Right Revd. Reginald Heber (1783-1826), Bishop of Calcutta. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Photographic copy of a half-length portrait. Print in poor condition: faded and dirty. Is this a copy of T. Phillips' painting of 1823?
Non-photographic: engraved portrait of the botanist Robert Wight (1796-1872), Madras Medical Service.
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head and shoulders portrait, signed W.B. Gardner, from an unknown source. Wight served in the Madras Medical Service from 1819-53, and was also Superintendent of the Madras Botanical Garden.
Portrait of Dr George Bidie (1830-1913), Madras Medical Service. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait showing Bidie seated at a table examining a plant, probably leaves from a coffee bush. Bidie, who served in the Madras Medical Service from 1856-90, was the author of Report on ravages of borer insects on coffee estates (1869).
Portrait of Brigadier-General George Bucknall Shakespear, Royal Artillery, officer commanding Centre District, Madras. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait, seated beside a table.
Portrait of Surgeon-General Edward Green Balfour (1813-1889), Madras Medical Service. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait, seated in uniform beside a table. Balfour, who served in the Madras Medical Service from 1836-77, was the founder of the Government Central Museum in Madras in 1850 and author of, among other works, the Encyclopaedia of India (5 vols, 1857-62).