Sir John Herschel
Aug 25, 2021
2 minutes
by Julia Margaret Cameron
EVER since humans first learnt to draw, there have been various forms of portrait art. It wasn’t until the 1850s, however, after advances in photographic processes made possible the inexpensive , that the option of having your picture taken became available to just about everyone. ‘From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic
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