A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bar.t.
Engraved by D.J. Pound, from a Photograph by Mayall.
[London Illustrated News, 1862.]
Stipple and engraving. Printed area 260 x 170mm (10¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed.
Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871), mathematician and astronomer, son of Sir William Herschel. He also contributioned to early photography, indroducing sensitized paper, ‘hypo' as a fixed agent, and coining the terms ‘photograph', 'negative', and ‘positive'. From a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901), who is best known for his 1875 portrait of Karl Marx.
[Ref: 59700] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Engraved by D.J. Pound, from a Photograph by Mayall.
[London Illustrated News, 1862.]
Stipple and engraving. Printed area 260 x 170mm (10¼ x 6¾"). Trimmed.
Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871), mathematician and astronomer, son of Sir William Herschel. He also contributioned to early photography, indroducing sensitized paper, ‘hypo' as a fixed agent, and coining the terms ‘photograph', 'negative', and ‘positive'. From a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901), who is best known for his 1875 portrait of Karl Marx.
[Ref: 59700] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)