Nicola Perscheid (Moselweiss near Koblenz 1864–1930 Berlin)
Portrait of Professor Ernst Haeckel (three-quarter length, holding a human skull in his left hand and with the skeleton of a gibbon in the background)
1904 (original photograph); 1906 (photogravure published)
hand-pulled photogravure after a photograph by Nicola Perscheid
image 22 x 16,5 cm (sheet 29,6 x 23,2 cm)
The Daulton Collection
in the plate, printed text stating name of photographer, date of photograph, number of photograph, name of subject, and name of publisher: "N. Perscheid phot. 1904," "4669," "Haeckel," and "Photographische Gesellschaft in Berlin" [Photographic Society in Berlin, also known as the Berlin Photographic Company].
condition: some foxing in the margin
The Pictorialists and portraitists around the
turn of the century often used hand-pulled photogravures because of their fine
rendition. The Photographische Gesellschaft in Berlin specialized in hand-pulled photogravures.
