[Unidentified Woman in Profile]
1866–68
![[Unidentified Woman in Profile] by Julia Margaret Cameron](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/unidentified-woman-in-profile-271511.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
33.9 x 25.8 cm (13 3/8 x 10 3/16 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969
Accession Number
69.607.10
Tags
Art Historical Context
Julia Margaret Cameron's *Unidentified Woman in Profile (1866–68) is a captivating albumen silver print that exemplifies the Victorian photographer's revolutionary approach to portraiture. Captured during Cameron's prolific early career on the Isle of Wight, this 33.9 x 25.8 cm image presents a mysterious woman in a classical profile pose, her features softly illuminated against a dark backdrop. Albumen prints, made by coating glass negatives with egg-white sensitized with silver salts, were the gold standard of 19th-century photography, prized for their luminous tones and intricate detail tha...
About the Artist
Julia Margaret Cameron · 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...