Portrait of George Frederick Watts taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1864. Albumen contact print from wet collodion negative. This photographic portrait of the artist George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) forms part of the Herschel Album, created by Cameron for her friend Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). Watts was known to Cameron as 'The Signor'. 'England's Michelangelo', Watts was one of the most important painters of the late Victorian period.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1984-5017/38
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
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overall: 248 mm x 219 mm
- type:
- photograph and albumen print
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
- credit:
- Sotheby's
