The Herschel Album
Julia Margaret Cameron, 1864–1867
The main illustration is a portrait of John Frederick William Herschel, mathematician, astronomer and pioneer of photography, and is part of a collection of 94 photographic portraits including ones of Carlyle, Tennyson, Holman Hunt, Browning, Trollope and G.F.Watts.
She is known as England's greatest amateur photographer concentrating mostly on portraits of famous contemporaries. Her photographs are now regarded as one of the supreme visual chronicles of the Victorian era. Sold in 1974 to an American, the export licence for this collection was refused.
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Title of artwork, date
The Herschel Album, 1864–1867
Date supported
1975
Medium and material
Photographs
Dimensions
35 x 30 cm
Grant
5,000
Total cost
52,000
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