Wrapper from the Photographic Experiments of Sir John Herschel, c.1842 |
|
|
| Inventory Number: | 81276
|
| Object Type: |
|
| Persons: |
Sir John Frederick William Herschel |
| Date Created: |
|
| Accession Number: | 1928-71
|
| Brief Description: | Home-made envelope of plain brown paper. The wrapper (packet 9 in the Museum's numbering) is empty. It formerly contained prepared (sensitised) papers for cyanotype and related experiments in 1841 or 1842.
|
| Primary Inscriptions: | 'Prepared Blanks. | Ammonio-Citrate | of | Iron.' on one side only [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 |
| Material(s): |
Paper
|
| Dimensions: |
| Height |
Width |
Depth |
Diameter |
Unit |
| 147 |
137 |
|
|
mm |
|
Narratives |
|
Permalink: http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/object/inv/81276