拍品 22
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REV. JOSEPH BANCROFT READE (1801-1870)
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REV. JOSEPH BANCROFT READE (1801-1870)

Self-portrait

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REV. JOSEPH BANCROFT READE (1801-1870)
Self-portrait
Salt print. Mid-1850s. Signed in ink by Reade and numbered 77 B in pencil in another hand, printed credit label with number 2, accompanying ink manuscript text label, title The New Asteroid, "Astræa" and annotation, card maker's De La Rue & Co blindstamp on mount. Trimmed oval, ruled in red ink.
5 x 4in. (12.7 x 10.1cm.)
出版
For a detailed account of his photographic contributions, see: Annals of Science, "J.B. Reade F.R.S. and the Early History of Photography", vol. 27, March 1971, pp. 13-83; Gernsheim, The History of Photography, pl. 38, for a portrait of Reade by Maull & Polyblank, c.1856.
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拍品專文

Reade was a distinguished amateur scientist, a founder-member and later President of the Microscopical Society and a fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society. In April 1839, he exhibited a number of his photographs, along side those of Henry Fox Talbot, at the Royal Society.

Nearly 39 years after the discovery of Vesta, the fifth asteroid, Astræa, was discovered by Hencke in December 1845. This discovery prompted a growing interest in asteroids as a new "class" of celestial objects.