The photographs:
Famous Men and Fair Women
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
Portrait of J. F. W. Herschel, 1867
albumen silver photograph
27.7 x 35.9cm
The Wilson Centre for Photography
93:4916
This is a variant of the other portrait of Herschel in this exhibition.
The two studies were taken on the same day in 1867. Although Herschel
encouraged and admired Cameron's work since she began to photograph in 1864
he only let her take his portrait in 1867. She recounts in a letter that she
had to send her photographic equipment to his home by train and arrived the
following day to take the photographs. All the known portraits of Herschel
were taken during the same sitting.
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