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Cameron, Julia Margaret | J. F. W. Herschel

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December 9, 08:27 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Julia Margaret Cameron

1815 - 1879

J. F. W. Herschel

albumen print, on a gilt-ruled mount, signed, dated and annotated 'From Life Registered Photograph taken at his own residence Collingwood' by the photographer, possibly autographed by the sitter in ink, and with the Colnaghi blindstamp on the mount, 1867 (Cox 674)

image: 13 by 10⅛ in. (33 by 25.7 cm.)

Julian Cox and Colin Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), 674

Colin Ford, The Cameron Collection: An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron Presented to Sir John Herschel (The National Portrait Gallery, London, 1975), jacket cover, pl. 1

Helmut Gernsheim, Julia Margaret Cameron (Aperture, 1975), p. 153