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Cameron, Julia Margaret
English (b. India, 1815-1879)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Sir J.F.W. Herschel (Bart)

1867
albumen print
30.3 x 24.3 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 1987
81:1129:0004

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13807-4

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Cameron, Julia Margaret. --Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women.-- New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. pl. 2.//
Newhall, Beaumont & Newhall, Nancy. --Masters of Photography.-- US, NY, New York: George Braziller, 1958. p. 53.//
Ford, Colin. --The Cameron Collection: An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron Presented to Sir John Herschel.-- Wokingham/New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1975. plate 1.//
Gernsheim, Helmut. --Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Photographic Work.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1975. p. 153.//
Hirsch, Robert. --Seizing the Light: A History of Photography.-- New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. p. 114.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

--Image,-- Vol. 1, 1952. (cover) page 4.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Camera Consciousness", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, September, 1954 - March, 1957.//
"Art of Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Mansion 2nd Floor, May 22, 1961 - 1973.//
""Permanent" Survey of the History of Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, 1972-1977.//
""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 19th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984, 1979.//
"Cameron: Her Work and Career", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, April 11 - May 25, 1986.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(signature and handwritten notations in ink by artist) title, "From Life taken at his own residence of Collingwood April 1867 Julia Margaret Cameron", (embossed stamp) "Registered Photograph London Sold By Messrs Colnaghi 140 Pall Mall East" mat verso-(handwritten in pencil) "Copy", (rubber stamp) "Gernsheim Collection"

FRAME: white mount, gold margin

NOTES: Copyright registration April 9, 1867, "Photograph. Sir John Herschel small head with cape; Sir John Herschel life size (underlined) portrait, full face. Nos. 1-3; Group of Sir John Herschel and the Honorable Mrs. Gordon." Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84.

SUBJECT: personage, astronomer / Herschel, John, Sir

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