Julia Margaret Cameron
Summer Days

ArtistBritish, born India, 1815–1879
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Summer Days
  • from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life
Date1866, assembled 1869
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 14 5/16 × 13 7/16 in. (36.4 × 34.2 cm)
Sheet: 14 5/16 × 13 7/16 in. (36.4 × 34.2 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2021.282.50
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


In late 1865, Cameron bought a new camera, capable of holding 12-by-15-inch glass negatives, rather than the 10-by-12-inch negatives used in the camera given to her two years earlier by Julia and Charles Norman, the original recipi­ents of this album. Both prints displayed here were made in 1866 with that new, larger camera, and this one, too—showing Cameron’s niece May Prinsep, maid Mary Ryan, and neighbor children Freddy Gould and Elizabeth Keown— may take its title from a poem, Summer Days by Wathen Mark Wilks Call or one of the same title by Eliza Cook.



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: May Prinsep and Freddy Gould and Lizzie Koewen and Mary Ryan // Summer Days// This negative has become (as is seen) a little worn & injured
Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 1096

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