File:Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bart. RMG PU3683.jpg
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Daniel J. Pound; John Jabez Edwin Mayall |
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| Description |
English: Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bart. This engraving of a photograph shows John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871) seated, with his right elbow resting on a table as he looks, thoughtfully, into the middle distance. On the table by his arm is an unspecified book. This portrait demonstrates the degree of personal fame that Herschel had achieved by the middle of the century, through his popular science writing, his experimental work, his cataloguing of nebulae, double stars and star clusters of the southern hemisphere, his brief career as master of the Mint and his contributions to various scientific society and governmental committees. Even by 1830 it was said that to be a scientist meant to be 'as much like John Herschel as possible', and by 1860 he was a household name. In 1867, the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron produced an iconic image of Herschel as the abstracted, other-worldly man of science (PAH6067). This portrait comes from a series entitled “The Drawing Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages” published by the Illustrated News of the World. From the 1840s there was a rapid increase in the number of heavily illustrated popular weekly newspapers and periodicals on the market in Britain. One of the most successful was the Illustrated London News, which spawned many imitators, including the Illustrated News of the World which lasted only 5 years (1858-1863). |
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| Date | between 1858 and 1863 | |||
| Dimensions | Mount: 412 mm x 285 mm | |||
| Notes | Box Title: Portraits 1869-1879. | |||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/107834 | |||
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The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | id number: PAD3683 | |||
| Collection | Herschel family |
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