Curious

[eldritchhobbit]

The photograph below, discovered by Lancashire researcher Robert Haley in a private Scottish collection, has the words "Les soeurs Brontë, Londres" written on the back. Is this a portrait of the Brontë sisters?

Comments

[karmaku]

Fascinating! Thank you so much for sharing this.

[eldritchhobbit]

My pleasure! I thought it was amazing (and I was surprised I hadn't heard about it before now).

[peadarog]

How cool! No matter what the outcome is...

[eldritchhobbit]

Yes! That's what I thought, too.

[methylviolet10b]

OooooOOooOOOoo!!! It's a wonderful image. I would dearly love it to be a picture of the Bronte sisters, which makes me automatically suspicious (too good to be true!). That being said, the website you link to is fascinating. It is certainly not outside the realm of possibility that this photograph (okay, copy of a daguerreotype) is in fact what it purports to be.

Ooo. :-D

Almost entirely (but not quite) unrelated: have you seen any of the Pre-Raphaelite photography? There was a show at the national gallery a few years back, and at least one nice book... Early photography is fascinating stuff. (And some of the methods used to do it were amazingly toxic, but that's another subject entirely.)

[eldritchhobbit]

I'm with you: I'd love it to be the real thing! And there's enough evidence to make it a compelling possibility worthy of investigation. It's clearly not some simple prank, for example.

Ooooh, that link to the Pre-Raphaelite photography is fantastic! Thanks for the heads up. I need to get my hands on the book related to that show. It looks fascinating.

[ext_1452293]

So interesting! I love this kind of stuff.

"If these are the Brontë sisters, the original photo must have been taken before Emily died in 1848. "

Why before? ;) It could be a convincingly life-like post-mortem daguerreotype (by far, my favorite type of daguerreotype). :D

[eldritchhobbit]

Why before? ;) It could be a convincingly life-like post-mortem daguerreotype (by far, my favorite type of daguerreotype). :D

Once again, you remind me why you're one of my favorite people. :D

Yes. This.