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Cameron, Julia Margaret
English (b. India, 1815-1879)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Sinhalese woman

Dec. 1875-Jan. 1879
albumen print
27.2 x 19.9 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 16972
71:0163:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Czach, Marie. "Some Thoughts on Cameron's Ceylon Photographs.", --Afterimage--, Vol. 1, 1973 September. p. 2-3.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 370.//
This image was part of GEH's 2000 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Cameron: Her Work and Career", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, April 11 - May 25, 1986.//
"Gesichter Asiens: Historische Fotografien aus dem Museum für Ostasiatische", Germany, Cologne, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, September 14 - November 6, 1994.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(inscribed in negative) incomplete calligraphic notations

FRAME: white mount, tint block

NOTES: Provenance: D'Offray Coupe Gallery. Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84, updated by GD, 7/86. Date assigned refers to Cameron's resedence in area. Title assigned by Will Stapp, 5/94.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, female
dress, ethnic

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