Photograph (Experimental Photogenic Drawing), by Sir John Herschel, c.1842 | |||||||||||
Inventory Number: | 59645 | ||||||||||
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Sir John Frederick William Herschel (Photographer) | ||||||||||
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Accession Number: | 1928-71 | ||||||||||
Brief Description: | Experimental photogenic drawing by Sir John Herschel, undated, c.1842. Herschel's sensitising preparation 724 was in use in 1842 in connection with his chrysotype experiments, but a variant experimental procedure has evidently been used here. Subject: engraving 20908, two ladies with weeping boy Technique: contact copy Format: horizontal (inscription vertical) Polarity: negative Orientation: laterally reversed Quality: barely discernible Colour: mustard yellow, slightly darker border Chemistry: presumably iron based Coating: none Inscription: number, procedural note Paper: thin Condition: good Purpose: not apparent (see above). For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives. | ||||||||||
Primary Inscriptions: | '724 both sides' [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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