Artist
Julia Margaret Cameron(British, born India, 1815–1879)British, born India, 1815–1879
CultureBritish
Titles
- Love in Idleness
- from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life
Date1866, assembled 1869
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 12 11/16 × 10 9/16 in. (32.2 × 26.9 cm)
Sheet: 12 11/16 × 10 9/16 in. (32.2 × 26.9 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)
Sheet: 12 11/16 × 10 9/16 in. (32.2 × 26.9 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2021.282.24
Non exposé
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Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed on mount recto, below image: Love in Idleness / A fishermen’s boy Freddy Gould / who submitted to the torment of one hour’s / trial of various postures and then/ was still whilst I counted three hundred!! / With this perfect serenity of countenance and temper.
Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 957
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