Curiosità: di Carrington non si sono mai conosciute le fattezze, fino a oggi.
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It does sound like there was a photo. How did you find it?
It was entirely by chance. A researcher in the library at the RAS was discussing Carrington’s photo. At that very moment, I just thought to look online to see if there were any Maull & Polyblank photographs for sale – and lo! A photographic shop in the USA was selling a group of these photographs and one of them had “the late Carrington” written on it in pencil on the mount. The seller simply listed it as “Photo of Mr Carrington”, but with no biographical detail. I couldn’t believe it!