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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Mary Mother

(1867)
albumen print
32.2 x 26.6 cm.
Museum purchase
GEH NEG: 7766
81:1124:0006

OLD GEH NUMBER: 6645-6

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Cameron, Julia Margaret. --Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women.-- New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. pl. 18.//
Wolf, Sylvia. --Julia Margaret Cameron's Women.-- Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998. Plate 44.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

--Hommage de Julia Margaret Cameron a Victor Hugo.-- Paris: Les Presses Artistiques, 1980. plate 7.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life (sic)", US, CA, Palo Alto, Stanford University Art Museum, January 22 - March 10, 1974.//
"Sybron Corp. - Corporate Membership Exhibit", US, NY, Rochester, Sybron Corporation, March 1977 - August 1978, 1977.//
"Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Gallery, March 1985 - April 1987, 1985.//
"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 Registered Photograph Copy right Julia Margaret Cameron", (handwritten in pencil) "16", (embossed stamp) "Registered Photograph London Sold By Messrs Colnaghi 140 Pall Mall East" mat verso-(handwritten in pencil) "39"

FRAME: cream mount, gold margin

NOTES: Provenance: Brussels Associates, New York City, 1961. Cameron citation of registration and copyright. Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84, updated by GD, 7/86.

SUBJECT: portrait, female

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