Julia Margaret Cameron
The Christ Kind

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Artist Julia Margaret Cameron(British, born India, 1815–1879)British, born India, 1815–1879

CultureBritish

Titles

The Christ Kind
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. (34.4 × 26.3 cm)
Sheet: 13 9/16 × 10 3/8 in. (34.4 × 26.3 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2021.282.17

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Description

Although Cameron sometimes costumed and posed her sitters amid scenery to illustrate a particular literary, historical, or biblical subject, at other times she merely titled her pictures to suggest qualities she sensed in the person before her lens. Here, for instance, she must have detected a Christ-like innocence and soulfulness in five-year-old Margie Thackeray.

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: Not enlarged / The Christ Kind / Little Margie Thackeray

Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 1043

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