Mrs. Herbert Duckworth

Artist Julia Margaret Cameron (English, born India, 1815 - 1879)

Date1872; printed ca. 1875

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 13 9/16 × 10 5/16 inches (34.45 × 26.19 cm)
Mount: 22 1/2 × 18 1/8 inches (57.15 × 46.04 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2007.21.2

SignedOn mount recto, bottom center, in black pen: "from life Registered Photograph Copyright Julia Margaret Cameron"

InscribedOn mount recto, lower right corner, in black pen: "A token of affectionate friendship / to Mr. Harrison from Julia Margaret Cameron. / Aug 27th 75."

MarkingsOn mount recto, bottom center, blindstamp: "Registered photograph/ Sold by/ Messrs. Colnaghi/ 14 Pall Mall East/ London"

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DescriptionImage of a woman with hair parted in the center and loosely pulled back. She's in front of foliage with small blooms.Gallery Label

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Cameron took up photography at age forty-eight. Largely self-taught, she went on to create one of the most original and influential bodies of work in the medium's history. Her portraits of eminent Victorian men and "fair" women are characterized by their soft focus and close proximity. Though she earned both praise and criticism in her lifetime, Cameron's approach is now recognized as boldly innovative-one that helped secure a "high art" status for the medium. Cameron created over fifty studies of her niece, Julia Jackson, shown here two years after the death of her first husband.

Provenance

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston, 2003; Hans P. Kraus Jr., Inc., New York, 2003; private collection, California; Sotheby's New York, "Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston," lot 97, 26 April 2007.

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