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Triptych: © University of Edinburgh Oil painting portrait of Doctor Joseph Black, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, 1770, by David Martin. Photograph: David Talbot Rice. Locket containing the hair of Doctor Joseph Black, inscription side Locket containing the hair of Doctor Joseph Black, detail of hair

Triptych: © University of Edinburgh Oil painting portrait of Doctor Joseph Black, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, 1770, by David Martin. Photograph: David Talbot Rice. Locket containing the hair of Doctor Joseph Black, inscription side Locket containing the hair of Doctor Joseph Black, detail of hair

Three images. First image is an oil painting of a man facing to the left in three-quarter profile. Second is a gold locket with an inscription. Third is the other side of the locket and contains human hair in a decorative cross pattern.

Triptych: © University of Edinburgh Oil painting portrait of Doctor Joseph Black, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, 1770, by David Martin. Photograph: David Talbot Rice. Locket containing the hair of Doctor Joseph Black, inscription side Locket containing the hair of Doctor Joseph Black, detail of hair


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