Photograph entitled 'Group from Sordello by Browning' taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1867. Albumen contact print from wet collodion negative. This photographic study of Henry John Stedman Cotton (1845-1917) and Mary Ryan (1848-1914) forms part of the Herschel album which Cameron created for her friend Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). In 1840 Robert Browning (1812-1889) published 'Sordello, A Poem in Six Books'. Sordello was an Italian poet/warrior of the early thirteenth century.
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- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1984-5017/80
- type:
- photograph
- credit:
- Sotheby's
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
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