Julia Margaret Cameron
King Ahasuerus & Queen Esther in Apocrypha

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

CultureBritish

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King Ahasuerus & Queen Esther in Apocrypha
from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life

Date1865, assembled 1869

MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative

DimensionsImage: 12 5/8 × 11 in. (32 × 28 cm)
Sheet: 12 5/8 × 11 in. (32 × 28 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2021.282.42

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Photography

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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.
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Inscribed on mount recto, below image: See Apocrypha // Henry Taylor // Mary Ryan and other Mary

Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 167

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