Photograph (Experimental Photogenic Drawing), by Sir John Herschel, February 13, 1839 | |||||||||||
Inventory Number: | 63865 | ||||||||||
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Persons: |
Sir John Frederick William Herschel (Photographer) | ||||||||||
Date Created: | 1839 | ||||||||||
Accession Number: | 1928-71 | ||||||||||
Brief Description: | Experimental photogenic drawing by Sir John Herschel, February 13, 1839, made as a fixing experiment during the earliest phase of his photographic researches. Herschel has inspected it after two months and noted the image 'totally oblit[erate]d'. Subject: engraving, no image Technique: ?contact copy Format: inscription horizontal Polarity: ??? Orientation: not apparent Quality: no visible image Colour: yellow, blue stains, brown at one edge, back similar Chemistry: silver based, fixed with potassium ferrocyanide Coating: none Inscription: inspection note. signature, date, chemical note Paper: xxx, larger than usual Condition: good Purpose: a fixing experiment using potassium ferrocyanide. For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives. | ||||||||||
Primary Inscriptions: | 'April 12. totally oblitd J.F.W.H. Feb. 13/39. - Fixed. F.C. Pot.' [ferrocyanate of potash; 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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