Two specimens of fern leaf Cavendish-Bentinck Duncan McKenzie

Duncan McKenzie

10th February 1969

for Clapham Junction'

'Disembarkation of the Expedition to Kertch at Kamish Bournou'

as named by James Cook

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.