- 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
- '784'.
- Physical material
- Paper
- Dimensions
- Height: 118mm Width: 94mm
- Inventory No
- 25880
- Accession Number
- 1928-71
Description
Experimental photogenic drawing (cyanotype) by Sir John Herschel, undated, c.1842, made in the course of the experiments in which he invented the cyanotype. Narrow border. xxx
Subject: engraving 28374, lady with guitar
Technique: direct positive contact copy
Format: vertical
Polarity: positive
Orientation: laterally reversed
Quality: xxx, light highlights
Colour: slightly greenish blue, highlights and border slightly yellowy-blue, plain back
Chemistry: cyanotype
Coating: none
Inscription: number
Paper: xxx
Condition: good, small nick from edge (compare 58467)
Purpose: a cyanotype experiment.
For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.
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