Portrait of Michael Faraday

Made:: before 1877

Portrait of the scientist, Michael Faraday. This wet collodion positive on glass was used by William Henry Fox Talbot to make a photographic, or photoglyphic engraving on paper.

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Category:: Photographs

Object Number:: 2003-5001/2/28360

Materials:: glass and collodion

Measurements:: Overall: 126 mm x 101 mm

type:: photograph

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