Julia Margaret Cameron
Henry Thoby Prinsep

ArtistBritish, born India, 1815–1879
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Henry Thoby Prinsep
  • from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life
Date1866, assembled 1869
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 14 3/16 × 10 5/16 in. (36.1 × 26.2 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/16 × 10 5/16 in. (36.1 × 26.2 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2021.282.13
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Henry Thoby Prinsep, husband of Julia Margaret’s younger sister Sara, was pressed into service as a photographic model like many of Cameron’s relatives, friends, neighbors, and household staff. Wrapped in a dark velvet cloak, Prinsep might well be mistaken for an Old Testament prophet or saintly monk. While most professional portrait photographers of the time strove for instantaneous exposures and perfectly recorded detail—“map-making and skeleton rendering of feature and form,” Cameron called it derisively—she aimed to show “the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man.”



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: H T Prinsep
Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 740

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