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

TITLE ON OBJECT: The May Queen

(1864)
albumen print
25.3 x 20.3 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company
GEH NEGS: 3578 14177 14192
81:1125:0002

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 352-2

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. 28.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Early Photography", US, MA, Northampton, Smith College Art Gallery, February 24 - March 30, 1950.//
"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", (handwritten in pencil) "7/6", (handwritten in blue pencil) "16 x 20", (embossed stamp) "Registered Photograph London Sold By Messrs Colnaghi 140 Pall Mall East" mat verso-(blue stamp) "393"

FRAME: cream mount, tint block

NOTES: Provenance: Purchased (1940) by Kodak from Gerald Massey. Copyright registration Nov. 4, 1864, "Photograph of May Queen Mary Ryan and Caroline Hawkins one figure in bed 3/4 face the other profile". Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84.

SUBJECT: portrait, female

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