The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Recto of print with original mount
  • Verso of original mount
  • Photomicrograph showing print surface and retouching (scale bar is in millimeters)

Julia Margaret Cameron (English, 1815–1879)

Sir John Herschel, 1867, printed 1875

Carbon print; 32 x 25.9 cm (image/paper); 38.3 x 31.7 cm (mount)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.878

 

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