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Cameron, Julia Margaret
English (b. India, 1815-1879)
Coburn, Alvin Langdon (later photographer/printer)
British (b. US, 1882-1966)

PUBLISHED TITLE: Whisper of the Muse

(1865) / print by A.L. Coburn, ca. 1915, from copy negative of original print
platinum print, tinted stock, mechanically varnished
23.6 x 20.3 cm.
Gift of Alvin Langdon Coburn
GEH NEG: 7376
67:0088:0010

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Coburn, Alvin Langdon. "Old Masters of Photography.", --Century Magazine--, Vol. XC, 1915 October. p. 909-920.//
Coburn, Alvin Langdon & Gernsheim, Alison & Helmut, editors. --Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography.-- New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. p. 80.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Old Masters of Photography", US, NY, Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, January 20 - February 28, 1915. (Traveled).//
"Cameron: Her Work and Career", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, April 11 - May 25, 1986.//

INSCRIPTION: mat verso-(handwritten in pencil) "44"

FRAME: cream mount, wove paper

NOTES: Copy print of Cameron photograph. Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84, updated by GD, 7/86.

SUBJECTS:
personage, artist / Watts, George Frederic
portrait, children

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