A portrait of Francis Norris Adams, aged about four, sitting by a beach capstan on an unidentified Kent beach.

A portrait of Francis Norris Adams, aged about four, sitting by a beach capstan on an unidentified Kent beach. He is wearing a sailor style collar, a jacket, a woollen hat, knickerbockers, socks and heavy boots. A beach hut is behind him and a row of two and three-storey properties are fronting the shingle beach.

Object Details

ID: N18566
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Adams, Edgar Tarry
Date made: c.1886
People: Adams, Francis Norris
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Adams Collection
Measurements: Overall: 102 mm x 127 mm