Julia Margaret Cameron
Love in Idleness

Public Domain

ExpandFavorite

Images(2)

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

CultureBritish

Titles

Love in Idleness
from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life

Date1866, assembled 1869

MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative

DimensionsImage: 12 11/16 × 10 9/16 in. (32.2 × 26.9 cm)
Sheet: 12 11/16 × 10 9/16 in. (32.2 × 26.9 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2021.282.24

Not on view

Explore Further

Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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: Love in Idleness / A fishermen’s boy Freddy Gould / who submitted to the torment of one hour’s / trial of various postures and then/ was still whilst I counted three hundred!! / With this perfect serenity of countenance and temper.

Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 957

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.