Town of Entraigues
Artist
Sir John Frederick William Herschel
(English, 1792 - 1872)
Date1826
MediumGraphite on paper
DimensionsImage: 8 7/16 × 13 3/4 inches (21.43 × 34.93 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/8 × 15 3/16 inches (25.08 × 38.58 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/8 × 15 3/16 inches (25.08 × 38.58 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2014.18.7
SignedOn sheet recto, bottom, in black pen: "JFWlmHerschel del. Cam. Luc. Sep 27. 1826"
InscribedOn image recto, lower right, in pencil: "Town + Bridge of Entraigues with the Fromage rock";
On sheet recto, top, in black pen: "No 480";
On sheet recto, bottom, in black pen: "Town of Entraigues shewing the situation of the "Fromage" on the Granite Rock".
MarkingsOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: "Entraigues";
On sheet verso, top right corner, in pencil: "Entraigues";
On sheet verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "301377.6";
On image recto, lower right, in pencil: "granite";
On image recto, lower left, metadata in pencil: "Lab = 20˚ 14' 45" / from station...".
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionCamera lucida landscape drawing with trees, mountains, small bridge, and a winding road which leads up to a small village perched on a hill in the distance.Exhibition History
Rotation 22. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, MO, August 10, 2016 – January 8, 2017, no cat.
Before the invention of photography in 1839, artists and scientists, such as Sir John Herschel, used lens-based tools like the camera lucida as drawing aids. A camera lucida serves as a tracing device: it has a prism that focuses light rays to reflect a subject onto a drawing surface. Herschel used his scientific skills to experiment with photography. He discovered a fixing agent that made photographic images more permanent. He also coined the terms photography, positive, and negative.
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2014;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2014.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2014.
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