Photograph (Experimental Photogenic Drawing), by Sir John Herschel, June 22, 1839 | |||||||||||
Inventory Number: | 22646 | ||||||||||
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Sir John Frederick William Herschel (Photographer) | ||||||||||
Date Created: | 1839 | ||||||||||
Accession Number: | 1928-71 | ||||||||||
Brief Description: | Experimental photogenic drawing by Sir John Herschel, June 22, 1839, made as a fixing experiment, part of a series trying different procedures with water or hypo and water. This led to the perfection of hypo fixing of silver-based images, as represented by this very clean sepia image with excellent contrast and detail. Presumably the inscription means it was fixed twice with hypo. Subject: engraving 16938, landscape with shrine and ruins Technique: contact copy Format: horizontal Polarity: negative Orientation: laterally reversed Quality: very clean image Colour: sepia, dark brown border Chemistry: silver based, hypo fixed Coating: none Inscription: number, date, chemical note Paper: thin Condition: good Purpose: a fixing experiment using hypo and water. For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives. | ||||||||||
Primary Inscriptions: | '504' and '504. June 22/39 1st Pp Water then H.S. Soda | July 16 Very completely fixed HS. S.' [pump, hyposulphite of soda; in Herschel's hand]. | ||||||||||
Provenance: | Presented by Miss Herschel and Lady Lubbock in 1928. They were the two surviving and youngest children of Sir John Herschel (Francisca and Constance). | ||||||||||
Collection Group: | Herschel's Photographic Experiments | ||||||||||
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