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Title:
Group from Sordello by Browning', 1867
Object name(s):
photograph; albumen print; photograph; albumen print
Brief description:
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.
Collection:
Science Museum Group
Credit line:
Sotheby's
Dimension:
height
Dimension measurement unit:
in
Dimension value:
11 3/8
Dimension:
height
Dimension measurement unit:
mm
Dimension value:
289
Dimension:
width
Dimension measurement unit:
in
Dimension value:
9 3/16
Dimension:
width
Dimension measurement unit:
mm
Dimension value:
234
Material:
paper (fibre product)
Object name:
photograph; albumen print; photograph; albumen print
Object production date:
Date - earliest / single:
1867
Date - latest:
1867
Object production date:
Date - association:
made
Date - earliest / single:
1867
Date - latest:
1867
Object production person:
Cameron, Julia Margaret
Object production place:
England, United Kingdom
Other number:
1984-5017/80
Other number type:
accession number
Responsible department/section:
NSMM - Photographs
Right holder:
National Science and Media Museum
Right type:
Copyright

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/7fc70b62-0459-3e1d-9fd7-ffc275927035

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/7fc70b62-0459-3e1d-9fd7-ffc275927035, Science Museum Group, CC BY

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