Diego Velasquez

Made:
1847-08-31
maker:
Nicolaas Henneman

Diego Velasquez, Portrait of the Infanta Margarita Maria (from a drawing by James R Swinton)', calotype photographed by Nicolaas Henneman, 31 August 1847. Inscribed '32' in pencil. Print 32 in 'Annals of the Artists of Spain', published by Sir William Sterling Maxwell (1818-1878) in 1848. Spainsh painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptised 1599 - 1660) was a leading artist at the court of the Spainsh King Philip IV.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1937-3447/2
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 194 mm x 128 mm
image: 135 mm x 111 mm
type:
photograph, calotype and salt print
credit:
Matilda Talbot