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Dimensions: measurements note 11 7/8 by 9 3/8 in. (30.2 by 23.8 cm.)
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Provenance: Gift of the photographer to her daughter, Julia, and son-in-law, Charles NormanBy descent through the Norman familyErich Sommer, LondonThackrey & Robertson, San FranciscoDaniel Wolf, Inc., New York, 1978Acquired by the Quillan Company from the above, 1990
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Exhibited: San Francisco, Thackrey & Robertson, Julia Margaret Cameron, September - October 1978
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Literature: This print:Jill Quasha, The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs (New York, 1991), pl. 64Julian Cox and Colin Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), pl. 914
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Notes: This print was originally given by Julia Margaret Cameron to her daughter, Julia, and son-in-law, Charles Norman. The couple launched the photographer's artistic career by giving her a camera in 1863 when she was 48. While the sitter is not identified, she strongly resembles the Normans' daughters, Adeline and Margaret. During the Victorian era, children were popular subjects for Victorian artists, and they were natural subjects for Cameron. She had five sons and a daughter, and adopted at least five other children. In addition to posing them in various narratives as cherubs, biblical figures, and characters from poetry and literature, Cameron made a number of images of both children and young adult women in Italianate and Italian peasant costumes. Italy was a popular destination not only for those making the Grand Tour in the nineteenth century, but was also an inspiring locale for artists and poets. In their volume Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs, Julian Cox and Colin Ford locate only one print of this image, the print offered here.
