Sir John Frederick William Herschel
John Jabez Edwin Mayall
- Art Funded
- 1996
- Dimensions
- 8 x 7 cm
- Vendor
- Private vendor
Showing the sitter seated, three-quarter length, his head resting on his left hand, this is the earliest recorded photograph of Herschel and, as a daguerreotype, is a unique image.
Provenance
By direct descent from the sitter, sold Sotheby's, 'Photographic Images and Related Material' 2 May 1996.