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Julia Margaret Cameron (English, 1815–1879)

Medium/Technique Photograph, carbon print (printed later)
Dimensions Image/Sheet: 33.4 x 26.6 cm (13 1/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Mount: 55.9 x 45.8 cm (22 x 18 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. J. D. Cameron Bradley
Accession Number42.327
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Photography
ClassificationsPhotographs

ProvenanceBy 1935, probably Sarah Choate Sears (b. 1858 – d. 1935), Boston; 1935, probably by descent to her daughter Helen Sears (Mrs. J. D. Cameron) Bradley (b. 1899 – d. 1966), Southborough, MA [see note 1]; 1942, gift of Helen Sears (Mrs. J. D. Cameron) Bradley to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 9, 1942)

NOTE:
[1] Sarah Choate Sears was an avid art collector and photographer. She was a member of The Linked Ring, a photographic society based in Great Britain, which Julia Margaret Cameron’s son, Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (b. 1852 – d. 1911), was also a member of.