Photographs

JULIA MARGARET CAMERON | CHARLES DARWIN

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April 3, 05:46 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

JULIA MARGARET CAMERON

1815-1879

CHARLES DARWIN

albumen print, on a gilt-ruled mount, signed and annotated 'From Life Registered Photograph Copyright Fresh Water' in ink, lithographic autograph and inscription 'I like this photograph very much better than any other which has been taken of me,' and with the Colnaghi blindstamp on the mount, 1868-69; accompanied by a letter from Helmut Gernsheim to Will Weissberg and a copy of a first edition copy of Gernsheim's 1948 publication Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Work (Cox 645, reversed) (3)

11⅝ by 9⅝ in. (29.5 by 24.4 cm.)

Originally in the collection of Will Weissberg

This lot is accompanied by a letter from Julia Margaret Cameron biographer Helmut Gernsheim to Will Weissberg on The Park Shelton Hotel, Detroit, stationery dated 25 June 1963, expressing Gernheim's interest in reproducing letters between Cameron and J. F. W. Herschel from Weissberg's collection in the second edition of his Cameron biography.

On 16 May 1967, Sotheby's held the landmark sale The Will Weissberg Collection of Rare Photographs, Cameras & Related Devices, which included 8 Cameron photographs from his collection.