- 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).
- Primary inscriptions
- '511'.
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 120mm Width: 97mm
- Inventory No
- 18784
- Accession Number
- 1928-71
Description
Experimental photogenic drawing by Sir John Herschel, undated but 1839, made as a fixing and positive printing experiment. Its unusual colouring, and perhaps the silver tarnishing at the edges, indicates a variant fixing or even senitising chemistry.
Subject: engraving 61514, lady with head-dress
Technique: contact copy (print) from a negative
Format: vertical
Polarity: positive
Orientation: correct
Quality: fair
Colour: pale wine red, natural highlights, browing and silver tarnishing at edges
Chemistry: presumably silver based
Coating: none
Inscription: number
Paper: heavy
Condition: good
Purpose: a fixing and positive printing experiment.
For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
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