Portrait of Edward Clapton (d.1909) Size:XS: 30 x 20cm View of the north front

View of the north front of Somerset House in the Strand

December 1970

10th April 1982

The Hospital moved to Lambeth in 1862

Such was the stench from the river that parliamentary proceedings were interrupted

Portrait of Edward Clapton (d.1909) Size:XS: 30 x 20cm View of the north frontHead and shoulders portrait of Dr Edward Clapton, half turned to the right as viewed. Printed below the image: 'WILSON & BEADELL, 69, NEW BOND STREET, Photographers to the Queen.' Information repeated verso with various pencil inscriptions. Edward Clapton was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He worked mainly at St Thomas's Hospital in London. Original: albumen print, carte de visite. ca. 1865 1870