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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Prayer

ca. 1866
albumen print
34.7 x 27.8 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 3623
81:1121:0009

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 387-9

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Ford, Colin. --The Cameron Collection: An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron Presented to Sir John Herschel.-- Wokingham/New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1975. pl. 81.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

Lukitsh, Joanne. --Cameron: Her Work and Career--. Rochester: IMP/GEH, 1986, p. 55.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"291 Gallery of Prints and Photographs", US, CA, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, August 4 - September 30, 1959.//
"British Masters of the Albumen Print", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, March 16 - August 20, 1973.//
"Cameron: Her Work and Career", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, April 11 - May 25, 1986.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 25, 1991 - March 22, 1992.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(handwritten in pencil by artist) "Prayer" (handwritten in pencil) "1 (and symbol for shillings)" "No. 8 of this series" (signature and handwritten notations in ink by artist) "From Life not enlarged Julia Margaret Cameron Freshwater Bay Isle of Wight" (embossed stamp) "Registered Photograph London Sold By Messrs Colnaghi 140 Pall Mall East" mat verso-(blue stamp) "384"

FRAME: cream mount, gold margin

NOTES: Catalogued 11/84, JL/PB, updated 11/90, MMC.

SUBJECT: portrait, child

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