Untitled (Ceylon)
1875/79
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 25.6 × 22.7 cm (10 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.); Mount: 44.2 × 35.6 cm (17 7/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
34840
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Julia Margaret Cameron gained renown for documenting "famous men and fair women" of her day, producing portraits and allegorical groups that were widely admired for their intimacy and emotional depth. In 1875, straitened financial circumstances forced her from her comfortable home on the Isle of Wight, where she was close to many luminaries of Victorian England to the family's coffee plantation in Ceylon. Cameron became enthralled with what she called "the primitive simplicity of the inhabitants...
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...