Ellen Terry, at the age of sixteen
Julia Margaret Cameron|The Autotype Company
1864, printed ca. 1913
Medium
Carbon print
Dimensions
24 x 26.7 cm (9 7/16 x 10 1/2 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number
49.55.323
Tags
PortraitsWomen
About the Artist
Julia Margaret Cameron|The Autotype Company · 1815–1879
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879), born Julia Margaret Pattle in Calcutta, India, emerged as one of the 19th century's most innovative photographers despite beginning her career at age 48. The daughter of East India Company official James Pattle and French aristocrat Adeline de l'Etang, she was educated in France from 1818 to 1834 alongside her six surviving sisters, renowned for their beauty and...