- 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
- '542'.
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 126mm Width: 100mm
- Inventory No
- 66340
- Accession Number
- 1928-71
Description
Experimental photogenic drawing by Sir John Herschel, undated but 1839, made as a fixing experiment.
Subject: engraving 82112, lady with nude infant and girl
Technique: contact copy
Format: vertical
Polarity: negative
Orientation: laterally reversed
Quality: xxx
Colour: brown, dark border
Chemistry: silver based, presumably hypo fixed
Coating: none
Inscription: number
Paper: thin
Condition: good
Purpose: a fixing experiment.
For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
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