Portrait of Asa Gray (1810-1888) Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Sir John Key

Sir John Key

Plate 6 from Supplement to Lord Armstong's work on electric movement in air and water

Inscribed lower right 'F

Botanical study of Nepenthes melamphora [Nepenthes gymnamphora] a pitcher plant native to Java

Portrait of Asa Gray (1810-1888) Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Sir John KeyHead 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