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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Study of a St. John the Baptist

1872
albumen print
35.3 x 26.3 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 3590
81:1121:0005

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 387-5

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Cameron, Julia Margaret. --Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women.-- New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. pl. 23.//
Gernsheim, Helmut. --Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Photographic Work.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1975. p. 162.//
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.//
Pageant of Photography from 1939 to the Present New York State Exposition Syracuse Fall 1962

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(signature and handwritten notations in ink by artist) title, "From Life Registered Photograph Copy right Julia Margaret Cameron Saxonbury Sept 1872", (handwritten in pencil) "From Mrs F.W. Rawsshey (sic) Florence Fisher", (embossed stamp) "Registered Photograph London Sold By Messrs Colnaghi 140 Pall Mall East" mat verso-(blue stamp) "376", (handwritten in pencil) "20 x 24 French gray Cover Line Bronze Bevel"

FRAME: cream mount, gold margin

NOTES: Cameron citation of registration and copyright. No photograph of this description registered for copyright in 1872. Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84.

SUBJECTS:
allegory, religious
portrait, child

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