Julia Margaret Cameron
William Gifford Palgrave

ArtistBritish, born India, 1815–1879
CultureBritish
Titles
  • William Gifford Palgrave
  • from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life
Date1868, assembled 1869
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 13 9/16 × 10 3/8 in. (34.5 × 26.3 cm)
Sheet: 13 9/16 × 10 3/8 in. (34.5 × 26.3 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2021.282.15
Not on view

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Description


Among the more colorful and adventurous figures of his day, Oxford-educated William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888) joined the British colonial army in India, converted to Roman Catholicism, and served as a Jesuit priest in India, Rome, and Syria. In 1862 and 1863, he traveled through Central and Eastern Arabia
as a spy, disguised as a Muslim physician from Syria, a journey he later detailed in a best-selling narrative. After renouncing his vocation as a Jesuit priest in 1865, he joined the British foreign service, serving in Türkiye, St. Thomas and St. Croix, Manila, Bulgaria, Bangkok, and Uruguay in subsequent years.



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: W G Palgrave
Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 733

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