The Cameron Collection: An album of photographs presented to Sir John Herschel

The Cameron Collection144 pp. An album of photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, presented to Sir John Herschel."She is known as England's greatest amateur photographer concentrating mostly on portraits of famous contemporaries. Her photographs are now regarded as one of the supreme visual chronicles of the Victorian era. The main illustration is a portrait of John Frederick William Herschel, mathematician, astronomer and pioneer of photography, and is part of a collection of 94 photographic portraits including ones of Carlyle, Tennyson, Holman Hunt, Browning, Trollope."Keywords: COLIN FORD CAMERON COLLECTION ART PHOTOGRAPHY ENGLAND ENGLISH JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL MATHEMATICIAN ASTRONOMER JULIA MARGARET CAMERON