George Frederick Watts, 1864
Photograph entitled '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). Known as 'England's Michelangelo', Watts was one of the most important painters of the late Victorian period.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1984-5017/8
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
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overall: 260 mm x 205 mm
- type:
- photograph and albumen print
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
- credit:
- Sotheby's
