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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Browning's Sordello

(1867)
albumen print
29.1 x 23.4 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEGS: 3597 15057
81:1121:0011

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 387-11

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. 80.//
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.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(signature and handwritten notations in ink by artist) title, "From Life Julia Margaret Cameron", "For Signor", (handwritten in brown ink by artist, notations partially effaced) "Sate at her knees the very maid....", (poem continues, see Catalogue Notes for entire text), (embossed stamp) "Registered Photograph London Sold By Messrs Colnaghi 140 Pall Mall East" mat verso-(blue stamp) "225", (rubber stamp) "Eastman Historical Photographic Collection"

FRAME: cream mount, gold margin

NOTES: Provenance: G.F. Watts. Text of poem written by Julia Margaret Cameron on mat recto, "Sate at her knees the very maid (effaced) Of the North chamber- her red lips as rich The same pure fleecy hair; one weft of which golden and great quite touched his cheek as o'er She leant speaking some six words and no more He answered something, any thing and she Unbound a scarf and laid it he (effaced) Upon him, Her necks warmth and all". Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84.

SUBJECTS:
allegory, literary
portrait, male
portrait, female

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