JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815-1879)

Sir John Herschel, April 1867

Details

JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815-1879)
Sir John Herschel, April 1867
albumen print, mounted on card with gilt border
signed, titled and dated in ink, Colnaghi blindstamp (on the mount, recto)
13½ x 10½in. (34.2 x 26.5cm.)

Literature

For an account of Cameron's relationship with Herschel see: Colin Ford, The Cameron Collection: An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron Presented to Sir John Herschel, Van Nostrand, Reinhold, Wokingham and The National Portrait Gallery, London, 1975;
Cox and Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs, Thames and Hudson, London, 2003, p. 324, no. 676 and back cover.

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Lot Essay

This powerful portrait is from the series of studies Mrs Cameron made of Herschel at his home at Collingwood in April 1867.

Herschel and Cameron met in South Africa in 1836 and became acquainted largely due to a shared passion for the arts. In 1864 Cameron wrote to Herschel, acknowledging his status as mentor: 'Your eye can best detect and your imagination conceive all that is to be done and is left undone, for you were my first Teacher & to you I owe all the first experiences & insights which were given to me when you sent me in India a score of years ago...the first specimens of Talbotypes...'

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