Sir John Herschel

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Title
Sir John Herschel
Description
This image depicts "Sir John Herschel, Victorian England’s preeminent scientist, astronomer, and mathematician, considered the equal of Sir Isaac Newton. Herschel wrote to her in Calcutta of Henry Talbot’s invention of photography and sent her the first photographs she had ever seen. Of her 1867 portraits of Herschel, she wrote: “From my earliest girlhood I had loved and honoured him, and it was after a friendship of 31 years’ duration that the high task of giving his portrait to the nation was allotted to me.”

Of the four exposures Cameron made in April 1867, Herschel preferred this one, which portrayed him, he thought, as an 'old Paterfamilias.'"
Identifier
JMC01
Creator
Cameron, Julia Margaret
Date
1867
Subject
Portrait of English scientist, astronomer, and mathematician Sir John Herschel
Type
Photograph
Medium
albumen prints
Format
Dimensions: 31.8 x 24.9 cm (12 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)
Contributor
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/283097?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&deptids=19&ao=on&ft=julia+maragret+cameron&offset=0&rpp=80&pos=33
Rights
This work is in the public domain
Item sets
Julia Margaret Cameron Photographs
Media
Sir John Herschel

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19th century photograph sir john herschel science mathematics albumen prints julia margaret cameron