X-ray photograph of the hand of William Thomson Finish:Stretched Jimmy Walsh

Jimmy Walsh

Fishmongers' Almshouses at St Peter's Hospital

Britannia is not impressed

Though the two-tone metallic blue cellulose is not original

X-ray photograph of the hand of William Thomson Finish:Stretched Jimmy WalshX ray image of Lord Kelvin's left hand showing its bones and a faint outline of the soft tissue of his fingers, darkening towards his hand and wrist. A signet ring with an inset stone is visible on the little finger. Signed and dated on the print, below the thumb: 'Kelvin R. S. May 6 96'. Inscribed in pencil verso: 'Taken by A. A. Campbell Swinton at the Royal Society's Soiree held on 6 May 1896.' William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, was President