Julia Margaret Cameron
Grief

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Artist Julia Margaret CameronBritish, born India, 1815–1879

CultureBritish

Titles

Grief
from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life

Date1866, assembled 1869

MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative

DimensionsImage: 13 7/8 × 11 in. (35.2 × 27.9 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 11 in. (35.2 × 27.9 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2021.282.71

Non exposé

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Description

In late 1865, Cameron bought a larger camera than the one given to her two years earlier by Julia and Charles Norman, the original recipients of this album, and a series of large, expressive portraits of her young neighbor Kate Keown soon followed.

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: Grief // Katie Koewen

Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 982

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