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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Ophelia Study No. 2

(1867)
albumen print
33.0 x 27.1 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEGS: 7768 14192 3612
81:1121:0012

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 387-12

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gernsheim, Helmut. --Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Photographic Work.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1975. p. 105 var.//
Wolf, Sylvia. --Julia Margaret Cameron's Women.-- Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998. Plate 15.//
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.//
"Julia Margaret Cameron's Women", US, IL, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, September 19, 1998 - January 3, 1999.//
"Julia Margaret Cameron's Women", US, NY, New York, Museum of Modern Art, January 28 - May 4, 1999.//
"Julia Margaret Cameron's Women", US, CA, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, August 27 - November 30, 1999.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(signature and handwritten notations in ink by artist) title, "From Life Julia Margaret Cameron", (handwritten in pencil) "1 (and symbol for shillings)", (embossed stamp) "Registered Photograph London Sold By Messrs Colnaghi 140 Pall Mall East" mat verso-(blue stamp) "389", (handwritten in pencil) "38"

FRAME: cream mount, gold margin

NOTES: Copyright registration July 4, 1867, "Photograph of Mary (sic) Peacock as "Ophelia (underlined)" (?). Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84.

SUBJECT: portrait, female

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