'Young Astyanax', 1866

Made:
1866 in England
maker:
Julia Margaret Cameron
'Young Astyanax'

Buy this image as a print 

Buy

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

License

'Young Astyanax'
© National Media Museum, Bradford / SSPL. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Science Museum Group Collection

Photograph entitled 'Young Astyanax' taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1866. Albumen contact print from wet collodion negative. This photographic study of William Frederick 'Freddy' Gould (born 1861) forms part of the Herschel Album, created by Cameron for her friend Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). Astyanax was the son of Hector and Andromache, and therefore the eldest grandson of Priam. He died when only a baby during the fall of Troy, when the son of Achilles, Neoptolemus, threw him over the walls of Troy.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1984-5017/60
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 314 mm x 249 mm
type:
photograph and albumen print
credit:
Sotheby's