John Herschel
John Herschel

Currently not on view

John Herschel,

1867, printed later

Julia Margaret Cameron, British, 1815–1879
2010-177
A pioneering photographer, Cameron produced striking portraits of many celebrities, including this one of John Herschel, the famed astronomer. Herschel had introduced Cameron to photography several decades before this image was taken, but she did not take up the medium until the age of forty-eight, when she was gifted a camera by her daughter. Taking photographs of friends, family, and servants, she embraced the imperfections of the medium, allowing scratches, freckles, and smudges to be part of her work.

Information

Title
John Herschel
Dates

1867, printed later

Maker
Julia Margaret Cameron
Medium
Carbon print
Dimensions
32.6 × 26.5 cm (12 13/16 × 10 7/16 in.) mount: 40.6 x 33 cm. (16 x 13 in.)
Credit Line
The Clarence H. White Collection, assembled and organized by Professor Clarence H. White Jr., and given in memory of Lewis F. White, Dr. Maynard P. White Sr., and Clarence H. White Jr., the sons of Clarence H. White Sr. and Jane Felix White
Object Number
2010-177
Place Made

Europe, England, Freshwater, Isle of Wight

Culture
British
Type
photographs, carbon process, black-and-white photographs
Techniques
mounting
Subject
elderly, figures (representations), men, portraits, Pictorialist

Sir John Herschel

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