As a daguerreotype, this is a unique image and is the earliest recorded photograph of Herschel. This portrait links one of photography ... Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, intent on ...

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 1379.10 Patricia Fara, Scientists anonymous, Thriplow 2005, p. 83, fig. 8 ...

The original Artaud portrait was commissioned by the sitter's son, John Frederick William Herschel in 1819. This copy was made from a painting commissioned by Bertie Greatheed, a friend of the family, ...

The relationship between the Observatory and the Herschel family lasted over a century. When William Herschel first discovered the planet Uranus in 1781, it was 5th Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne, ...

CAROLINE HERSCHEL: Are they recording? William, press record will you? WILLIAM HERSCHEL: We are rolling, Caz, chill out. CAROLINE HERSCHEL: Oh hello SciTubers! I am Caroline Herschel and this ...

use in free educational lectures and classes use on an individual or group's website discussing the artwork in question (except on websites where the individual is promoting themselves or a group, ...

New visitor to our solar system 'sends a shiver down the spine' of scientist studying it ...

William of Orange is the figurehead of the Dutch uprising against Spanish rule. His resistance formed the basis for the Republic of the Netherlands. But here he does not look like much of a fighter.

This is a portrait of William Fee McKinney, who lived at Sentry Hill, Newtownabbey, County Antrim. The McKinney family came to Ireland from Scotland in the early 1700s. Remarkably the contents of ...

Cameo set in a gold brooch (6. 25 cms across) and Cornelian intagio set in a gold seal (2.5 cms high) depicting portraits of William Constable. Pichler specialised in carving portrait cameos/intaglios ...

Engraving (in reverse) by William Hogarth after his painted self-portrait of 1745, now in the Tate collection. On the left is Hogarth's pug Trump, and on the right is Hogarth's palette inscribed 'The ...