M M Quetelet

Calotype salt print portrait entitled 'M M Quetelet', photographed by Henry Collen between 1841 and 1844. Monogrammed 'HC'. One of thirteen prints from the photographic album 'Calotype Portraits'. Subject is possibly Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (1796-1874) a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1937-367/6
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 100 mm x 80 mm
type:
calotype process
credit:
Matilda Talbot