Construction of one of the towers of the George Washington Bridge Size:L: 80 x 60cm Sir John Evans was elected

Sir John Evans was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1864

He had recently fought a victorious campaign in Abyssinia against King Theodore which had resulted in the British captives held by the King being freed

He wears a shoulder length light brown wig and is dressed in a blue gown with white collar and cuffs and a white lace cravat

A saccharometer is a hydrometer used for determining the amount of sugar in a solution

Construction of one of the towers of the George Washington Bridge Size:L: 80 x 60cm Sir John Evans was electedConstruction of one of the towers of the George Washington Bridge, New York, USA, late 1920s. A suspension bridge over the Hudson River connecting Manhattan and New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge was commissioned by the New York Port Authority in the 1920s. Designed by Othmar Ammann, it had the longest central span of any suspension bridge in the world at the time of its completion in 1931.