Julia Margaret Cameron
Charles Darwin

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

CultureBritish

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Charles Darwin
from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life

Date1868, assembled 1869

MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative

DimensionsImage: 11 3/4 × 9 7/16 in. (29.9 × 24 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 9 7/16 in. (29.9 × 24 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2021.282.63

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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: Ch: Darwin. // He says 'he like this photograph better // than any other that has been taken of him'

Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 645

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