Sir John Herschel

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 See all items with this value
Type: Photograph See all items with this value
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

Cartography in Contemporary Art