Julia Margaret Cameron
Henry Taylor

ArtistBritish, born India, 1815–1879
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Henry Taylor
  • from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life
Date1867, assembled 1869
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 13 5/8 × 10 5/16 in. (34.6 × 26.2 cm)
Sheet: 13 5/8 × 10 5/16 in. (34.6 × 26.2 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2021.282.5
Non exposé

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Department
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Description


In addition to a distinguished career in civil service, Henry Taylor (1800–1886) was a widely recognized poet and playwright, and Cameron was an admirer of his work. He was among her most frequent photographic models, submitting to her direction, she said, “regardless of the possible dread that sitting to my fancy might be making a fool of himself.” He posed not only for straightforward portraits such as this one, but also consented to play the roles of Friar Laurence with Juliet, Prospero with Miranda, and Ahashuerus with Queen Esther (holding Cameron’s fireplace poker as his scepter), appearing in 32 photographs all told.



ProvenanceGiven by the artist to her daughter Julia and son-in-law Charles Norman; by descent to his son Archibald Cameron Norman; by descent to his son Charles Lloyd Norman; by descent to his son Charles Wake Norman; by descent to his son to William Norman; by descent to his son Stephen Norman; [consigned to Hans P. Kraus, New York, 2012]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed on mount recto, below image: From the life, not enlarged taken 1867 / Sir Henry Taylor
Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 790

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