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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Henry W. Longfellow

(1868)
albumen print
35.2 x 27.3 cm.
Gift of Helmut Gernsheim
GEH NEG: 1328
83:2398:0001

OLD GEH NUMBER: 6517

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Cameron, Julia Margaret. --Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women.-- New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. pl. 3.//
Gernsheim, Helmut. --Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Photographic Work.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1975. p. 120.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

Mann, Charles W. "The Poet's Pose." --History of Photography,-- Vol. 3, no. 2. (April 1979), pp. 125-127.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"291 Gallery Prints and Photographs", US, CA, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, August 4 - September 30, 1959.//
""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 19th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984, 1979.//
"Cameron: Her Work and Career", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, April 11 - May 25, 1986.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(lithographed signature) "Henry W Longfellow", (signature and handwritten notations in ink by artist) "From Life Registered Photograph Copy right Julia Margaret Cameron 1868", (handwritten in pencil) "By Mrs Cameron Signed Proof", "13" mat verso-(handwritten in ink) "M Heywood Palace Gardens", (hand- written in pencil) "l in...& 1/2 in...", "Duplicate", (rubber stamp) "Gernsheim Collection"

FRAME: cream mount, gold margin

NOTES: Cameron citation of registration and copyright. Copyright registration July 23, 1868, "Photograph Portrait of Longfellow the Poet profile (underlined) bust." Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84.

SUBJECT: personage, literary / Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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