Photograph entitled 'The Honorable Frank Charteris' taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1867. Albumen contact print from wet collodion negative. This photographic portrait of Frank Charteris (1844-1870), Lord Elcho's eldest son, forms part of the Herschel Album created by Cameron for her friend Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). Charteris was killed in a shooting accident in 1870, aged just twenty-six.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1984-5017/85
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
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overall: 327 mm x 265 mm
- type:
- photograph and albumen print
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
- credit:
- Sotheby's
