Boy peeling turnip, circa 1854

.., by the photographer who was mistakenly identified since the 1970s as John Whistler. For information on Sherlock including his relationship with artists and the circumstances of how the work came to be misattributed, see Jacobson, Etude d'Après Nature. Other examples of his work are reproduced in Haworth-Booth, The Golden Age of British Photogaphy.