Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt NPG P213

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Julia Margaret Cameron

Cameron first met Herschel in South Africa in 1836 where she went to recover from illness and they became close, long-standing friends. An astronomer and physicist, Herschel was also a pioneer in the chemistry of photography. Among his many groundbreaking discoveries, he introduced ‘hypo’ as a fixing agent and coined the terms 'photograph', 'negative' and 'positive'. Herschel introduced Cameron to the new invention of photography in 1839 and shared the results of his early experiments with her. In her autobiographical manuscript Annals of My Glass... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.