Julia Margaret Cameron

Albumen print from glass collodion negative, flush-mounted to original 'Colnaghi' card. Signed, titled and dated in ink on the card.

Alan Klotz gallery, New York

Julian Cox and Colin Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron, The Complete Photographs, London, Thames and Hudson, 2003, ill. pl. 276

This print is in overall good to very good condition. With light, superficial surface scratches and minor foxing across the print, only visible in raking light. With light foxing on the mount.
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Only a few years after she took her first photograph, Julia Margaret Cameron captured this photograph, Miss Huth, which shows the considerable influence pre-Raphaelite artists had on her. Her portraits convey a sense of intimacy with the sitter, who are often closely cropped around the face with soft lighting. The far-away looks and lack of eye contact with the photographer is a distinctive feature of her portraiture.