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Painting, oil on board. Ongoing no.2, by Keith Holmes, artist in residence at the Science Museum, 1994 to 1996. Completed 1999; retitled 'The Horologist, John Elcomb'. Oil on board; image 102x121cm in frame by artist, 107x125x3.5cm. Right hand panel of a triptych about the Science Museum; a portrait of conservation. The horologist (John Elcomb, Science Museum conservation team) stands TQL in infinity, wearing his white lab coat, wearing a watch maker's eyeglass over a lens of his spectacles; beside him, the brass spheres of the large orrery by Charles Butcher of Bedford, 1731-33 (Inv.1927-1618), its orb and dial a light source in the lower right corner; right, a small earth viewed from space
Details
- Category:
- Art
- Object Number:
- 1996-581
- Materials:
- oil paint on board
- Measurements:
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frame: 1070 mm x 1250 mm x 35 mm,
overall (framed): 1048 mm x 1250 mm x 33 mm,
image: 1020 mm x 1210 mm
- type:
- oil painting and portrait
- credit:
- Holmes, Keith
