Samuel Morse (1791-1872), American artist and inventor Size:Standard: 6 x 4in The work is inscribed above

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Lake Maggiore'

Plate taken from In The Forbidden Land (an account of a journey in Tibet

'The Greek Patriarch'

Binney's left arm rests on a desk blotter and he holds a pen in his right hand

Samuel Morse (1791-1872), American artist and inventor Size:Standard: 6 x 4in The work is inscribed aboveSamuel Morse (1791 1872), American artist and inventor, 1926. Morse was the inventor of the first functional electric telegraph (1835) and, with Alexander Bain (1810 1977), of the Morse code. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 4: Christianity and Modern Thought, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake, published by the Waverley Book Club (London, 1926).