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Julia Margaret Cameron
Selected Images
- Estimate
- £9,000 - 12,000‡
£11,250
Lot Details
Five albumen prints, mounted.
1867-1879
Varying sizes from 19.9 x 15.3 cm (7 7/8 x 6 in.) to 35.5 x 26.3 cm (13 7/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
One signed, dated and annotated 'From Life', 'Registered Photograph’ and 'Saxonbury', in ink and one with ‘Colnaghi’ blindstamp on the mount; two with ‘The Art Institute of Chicago’ collection label affixed to the reverse of the mat.
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Catalogue Essay
Titles include: Julia Jackson, 1867; Young Woman, Ceylon, 1875-1879; Mrs. Herbert Duckworth and Gerald Saxonbury, 1872; Mrs. Herbert Duckworth and Gerald Saxonbury, 1872; Mrs. Herbert Duckworth, 1872
Julia Margaret Cameron has long been recognised as one of the greatest portrait photographers. Early critical discussion of her work centered on portraits of men who comprised her Victorian circle of intellectual friends, including the evolution theorist Charles Darwin, the social critic Thomas Carlyle and the poet Alfred Tennyson. The Art Institute of Chicago offered a new perspective with the 1998-1999 travelling exhibition Julia Margaret Cameron’s Women. In the introductory essay for the exhibition catalogue, Sylvia Wolf points out that, “It is in her portraits of women that she gave herself the most room for artistic experimentation and that she displays the greatest range.” And that Cameron’s pioneering portraits - precursors to a great line of portraiture by women photographers in the 20th century - “reflect the questioning of identity that is a defining characteristic of the modern era.”
Julia Margaret Cameron has long been recognised as one of the greatest portrait photographers. Early critical discussion of her work centered on portraits of men who comprised her Victorian circle of intellectual friends, including the evolution theorist Charles Darwin, the social critic Thomas Carlyle and the poet Alfred Tennyson. The Art Institute of Chicago offered a new perspective with the 1998-1999 travelling exhibition Julia Margaret Cameron’s Women. In the introductory essay for the exhibition catalogue, Sylvia Wolf points out that, “It is in her portraits of women that she gave herself the most room for artistic experimentation and that she displays the greatest range.” And that Cameron’s pioneering portraits - precursors to a great line of portraiture by women photographers in the 20th century - “reflect the questioning of identity that is a defining characteristic of the modern era.”
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