Photograph entitled 'Friar Laurence and Juliet' taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1865. Albumen contact print from wet collodion negative. This photographic study of the author Henry Taylor (1800-1886) and Mary Ann Hillier (1847-1936), posed as characters from William Shakespeare's (1564-1616) play 'Romeo And Juliet' (1594-1595) forms part of the Herschel Album, created by Cameron for her friend Sir John Herschel (1792-1871).
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1984-5017/61
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
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overall: 317 mm x 271 mm
- type:
- photograph and albumen print
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
- credit:
- Sotheby's
