Two specimens of fern leaf Cavendish-Bentinck Duncan McKenzie

Duncan McKenzie

The scene shows local geology

The panels in the bottom corners show Westminster Abbey (left) and the old St Paul's Cathedral (right)

for Clapham Junction'

A skeletal figure holds an empty glass

Two specimens of fern leaf Cavendish-Bentinck Duncan McKenzieA 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.