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Title: Sir John Herschel. Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron (British (born India), Calcutta 1815–1879 Kalutara, Ceylon) Date: April 1867 . Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative. Dimensions: 35.9 x 27.9 cm (14 1/8 x 11 in.) Classification: Photographs. Credit Line: The Rubel Collection, Gift of William Rubel, 2013. Accession Number ...
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Title: Sir John Herschel. Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron (British (born India), Calcutta 1815–1879 Kalutara, Ceylon) Date: 1867. Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative. Dimensions: Image: 33.8 x 26.2cm (13 5/16 x 10 5/16in.) Classification: Photographs.
A paramount example is her 1867 photograph of Sir John F. W. Herschel, in which the scientist, mathematician, and photographic experimenter looks directly at the camera, emerging from the shadows with the tousled hair and deep facial lines of a man devoted to the intellectual life.
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April 1867 (photographed) In late 1865, Julia Margaret Cameron began using a larger camera. It held a 15 x 12 inch glass negative, rather than the 12 x 10 inch negative of her first camera. Early the next year she wrote to Henry Cole with great enthusiasm – but little modesty – about the new turn she had taken in her work.
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Julia Margaret Cameron ( née Pattle; 11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was a British photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorians and for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature.
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Sir John F. W. Herschel. 1867. has 17 works online. 28,762 photographs online. We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history. Julia Margaret Cameron. Sir John F. W. Herschel. 1867. Albumen silver print. 13 1/4 × 10 3/8" (33.7 × 26.4 cm). Purchase. 609.1941.
Julia Margaret Cameron to Sir John Herschel, 31 December 1864. Best known for her powerful portraits, Cameron's photographs were highly innovative: intentionally out-of-focus and often including scratches, smudges and other traces of her process.