G F Watts Profile', 1864

G F Watts Profile', 1864

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Photograph entitled 'G F Watts Profile' 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.

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Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1984-5017/9
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 273 mm x 209 mm
type:
photograph and albumen print
credit:
Sotheby's