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

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Angel at the Tomb

1870
albumen print
34.8 x 26.3 cm. (arched top)
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 5883
81:1124:0009

OLD GEH NUMBER: 6645-9
NON-GEH NUMBER: 8

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: 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 11.

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Art of Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Mansion 2nd Floor, May 22, 1961 - 1973.//
"Cameron: Her Work and Career", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, April 11 - May 25, 1986.//
"The Art of Photography: 1839-1989", US, TX, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 11 - April 30, 1989. (Traveled).//
"Julia Margaret Cameron: Victorian Photographer", US, MA, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 17 - June 7, 1998.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(signature and handwritten notations in ink by artist) title "From Life Registered Photograph Copy right Julia Margaret Cameron Fresh Water 1870" "God's glory smote her on the face" "For Mr Warde sent by his friend's mother with her love" "(a corruscation of spiritual unearthly light is playing over the head in mystic lightning flash of glory)" (in pencil) "8" mat verso-(in pencil) "Cameron"

NOTES: Provenance: Brussels Associates, New York City, 1961. Cameron citation of registration and copyright. Copyright registration April 6, 1870, "Photograph. "The Angel at the Tomb" (underlined)" Catalogued 11/84, JL, updated 10/88, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, female
allegory, religious

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