Samuel Morse (1791-1872), American artist and inventor Size:S: 60 x 45cm The table is covered in

The table is covered in a green cloth and contains a glass inkwell held on a silver stand with a second quill

telling them to return with the message that he and his men had come

formerly a debtors' prison

September 10th 1896

'Turtur minimus guttatus'

Samuel Morse (1791-1872), American artist and inventor Size:S: 60 x 45cm The table is covered inSamuel 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).