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  • RISDM 82-063.tif
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Julia Margaret Cameron

Louise Beatrice de Fonblanque

Description

Maker

Julia Margaret Cameron (English, 1815-1879)

Title

Louise Beatrice de Fonblanque

Year

1868

Medium

  • Albumen print from glass negative

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Albumen print from glass negative

Materials

albumen

Dimensions

33 x 26.4 cm (13 x 10 3/8 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Norman Bolotow and Tamara Belovitch and their Friends in honor of their marriage

Object Number

82.063

Type

  • Photographs

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Early Exposures
19th-Century Photography from the Collection
Mar 13, 2015 – Jul 19, 2015

Label copy

Julia Margaret Cameron’s innovative use of focus, the vaguely Renaissance costume, and the sitter’s unfocused gaze suggest the subject’s inner life. Such allegorical intonations were common in Cameron’s work, particularly for her female sitters. She wrote: “My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.”

Cameron took portraits of many of the English artists and intellectuals who made up her circle of close family friends. This example was made in a studio she briefly occupied at the South Kensington Museum, now the V&A.

Recent Gifts and Acquisitions
Nov 05, 1982 – Jan 02, 1983

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Julia Margaret Cameron (English, 1815-1879)
Louise Beatrice de Fonblanque, 1868
Albumen print from glass negative
33 x 26.4 cm (13 x 10 3/8 inches)
Gift of Norman Bolotow and Tamara Belovitch and their Friends in honor of their marriage 82.063

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