- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- John Herschel
- 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).
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 70mm Width: 114mm
- Inventory No
- 65354
- Accession Number
- 1928-71
Description
Experimental photogenic drawing by Sir John Herschel, undated but 1839, made as a hypo fixing experiment and for use in positive printing experiments. Oiled for enhanced translucency. This is the negative used by Schultze to make a modern positive, reproduced in his 1965 article (figure 1, p.59).
Subject: engraving 17583, desert landscape with camel
Technique: contact copy
Format: horizontal
Polarity: negative
Orientation: laterally reversed
Quality: good
Colour: dark brown and amber, dark border
Chemistry: silver based, hypo fixed
Coating: oiled
Inscription: none
Paper: thin
Condition: very fragile and brittle, cracks (especially at one corner) and one tear, surface abrasions
Purpose: probably a hypo fixing experiment, but made chiefly as a negative for use in positive printing experiments.
For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
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