Julia Margaret Cameron
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

ArtistBritish, born India, 1815–1879
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life
Date1868, assembled 1869
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 13 11/16 × 11 in. (34.8 × 28 cm)
Sheet: 13 11/16 × 11 in. (34.8 × 28 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2021.282.8
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


In addition to the scientists, artists, writers, and philosophers who were part of Cameron’s intellectual circle, she took advantage of the opportunity when visiting notables came within her orbit. When the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), author of Paul Revere’s Ride and The Song of Hiawatha, came to the Isle of Wight in 1868 to visit Charles Darwin, Alfred Tennyson delivered him to Cameron’s studio with the warning, “You will have to do whatever she tells you. I will come back soon and see what is left of you.”



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: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 712

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