Engraving (Used for Copying) from the Photographic Experiments of Sir John Herschel, c.1839 | |||||||||||
Inventory Number: | 28184 | ||||||||||
Object Type: | | ||||||||||
Persons: |
Sir John Frederick William Herschel (Owner) | ||||||||||
Date Created: | |||||||||||
Accession Number: | 1928-71 | ||||||||||
Brief Description: | Engraving, vertical format: lady picking and holding flowers, a tiny distant landscape beneath her arm, the extended arm to left. Waxed, giving a yellowish discolouring, darker on the back with speckling, and stiffening the paper. For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives. | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Material(s): |
Paper | ||||||||||
Dimensions: |
|
||||||||||
Narratives | |||||||||||
Permalink: http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/object/inv/28184