2003, ISBN: 9781403960191

(1846-1909, English shipbroker and botanist), thanking him "for the papers relating to the S. American Missions. I am sorry I cannot undertake the local secretary's work here...… More...

(1846-1909, English shipbroker and botanist), thanking him "for the papers relating to the S. American Missions. I am sorry I cannot undertake the local secretary's work here... We might, however, arrange a meeting", 22 Avenue Gardens, Acton, W., 28th September The writer was a son of George Robert Waterhouse, 1810-1888, who had described for Darwin the mammals and coleoptera collected on the 'Beagle'. Charles' brother Frederick H. Waterhouse was Librarian of the Zoological Society. Middleton was employed at one time by the Hartlepools Shipowners' Society. About 1886 he and his wife settled in South Pittsburg, Tennessee, at the foot of the Cumberland Mountains. He corresponded with many leading naturalists, collected autographs, and presented a herbarium of some 3000 American and other specimens to McGill University in December 1890, when he made a trip to England, returning permanently to England in 1892. With his wife and sister he spent 1904-1907 as a missionary in Chile. Again returning, he took a house in Kew and was a Temporary Assistant at the Natural History Museum till 1909., 0, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xv, 320 p : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary; Acknowledged as the outstanding portrait photographer of her generation, Julia Margaret Cameron was a very late starter. She was born to English and French parents in Calcutta in 1815, five days before the Battle of Waterloo. Her father was a high-ranking civil servant in the British East India Company, and it was expected that Julia would follow the example of her sisters by connecting herself to an established Anglo-Indian professional. She did exactly that in 1838 when she married Charles Hay Cameron, a legal scholar, and settled down to the quiet life of a typical Victorian colonial matron. But beneath this conventional exterior, Cameron was becoming increasingly interested in photography, and particularly in new technologies that would allow photographic images to be reproduced and preserved in a permanent form. Shortly after her marriage, she began a long and affectionate correspondence with Sir John Herschel, the world-renowned scientist, and he took great delight in keeping her informed about new developments in photography. Herschel and Cameron believed that in the medium of photography, science and art had become one. In 1863, at the advanced age of 48, Julia Margaret Cameron began to emerge as the leading portrait photographer of the day. At a time when photography's status as an artistic form was the subject of fierce debate, she championed the merits of the medium by producing a series of large, striking portraits of distinguished Victorians including Tennyson, Carlyle and Darwin. These pictures, many of which are reproduced in this book, vividly convey a sense of the powerful personalities Cameron chose as models. Subjects; Cameron, Julia Margaret (1815-1879).Women photographers - Great Britain - Biography. Photographers - Great Britain - Biography. Photography - History - 19th century. Individual photographers. Biography & Autobiography / General. Women photographers ; Great Britain ; Biography ; Photographers ; 19th century ; History ; Photography. Genre; Biography., New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 0<

2003, ISBN: 9781403960191

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and espe… More...

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xv, 320 p : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary; Acknowledged as the outstanding portrait photographer of her generation, Julia Margaret Cameron was a very late starter. She was born to English and French parents in Calcutta in 1815, five days before the Battle of Waterloo. Her father was a high-ranking civil servant in the British East India Company, and it was expected that Julia would follow the example of her sisters by connecting herself to an established Anglo-Indian professional. She did exactly that in 1838 when she married Charles Hay Cameron, a legal scholar, and settled down to the quiet life of a typical Victorian colonial matron. But beneath this conventional exterior, Cameron was becoming increasingly interested in photography, and particularly in new technologies that would allow photographic images to be reproduced and preserved in a permanent form. Shortly after her marriage, she began a long and affectionate correspondence with Sir John Herschel, the world-renowned scientist, and he took great delight in keeping her informed about new developments in photography. Herschel and Cameron believed that in the medium of photography, science and art had become one. In 1863, at the advanced age of 48, Julia Margaret Cameron began to emerge as the leading portrait photographer of the day. At a time when photography's status as an artistic form was the subject of fierce debate, she championed the merits of the medium by producing a series of large, striking portraits of distinguished Victorians including Tennyson, Carlyle and Darwin. These pictures, many of which are reproduced in this book, vividly convey a sense of the powerful personalities Cameron chose as models. Subjects; Cameron, Julia Margaret (1815-1879).Women photographers - Great Britain - Biography. Photographers - Great Britain - Biography. Photography - History - 19th century. Individual photographers. Biography & Autobiography / General. Women photographers ; Great Britain ; Biography ; Photographers ; 19th century ; History ; Photography. Genre; Biography., New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 0<