St Agnes (Alice Liddell)
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- Place made
- Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England
- Geographical location
- Isle of Wight
- Medium
- albumen-silver photograph
- Dimensions
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33.7 x 22.7 cm (image & sheet)
58.6 x 46.5 cm (mount) - Credit line
- Roy and Marjory Edwards Bequest Fund 2005
- Accession number
- 20057Ph6
- Signature and date
- Signed on mount, l.r., pen & ink "Julia Margaret Cameron Freshwater Sep 1872".
- Catalogue raisonne
- Cox and Ford (2003) nos. 351-353
- Media category
- Photograph
- Collection area
- British Photographs
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WALL LABEL: Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography, 2016
Julia Margaret Cameron was born in 1815 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, and educated in France before she moved to England in 1848 with her husband and six children. She took up photography in earnest at the age of forty-eight after receiving a camera as a gift from her daughter and son-in-law in December 1863.
In England, Cameron moved in a social circle that included many of the most influential scientists, academics, writers and artists of Victorian England, many of whom she photographed. While Cameron made direct portraits of her family and friends, she also asked them to pose for her as biblical, historical or allegorical figures.
In St Agnes (Alice Liddell), Cameron has photographed the adolescent Alice Liddell. As a child, Liddell was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s (Charles L. Dodgson) famous literary works, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872).
Julie Robinson, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs
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Julia Margaret Cameron
Art Gallery of New South Wales, 14 August 2015 – 25 October 2015 -
YOUR Gallery
Art Gallery of South Australia, 29 November 2012 – 17 March 2013 -
Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography
Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 February 2016 – 18 September 2016
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[Newsletter] n.d. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia.
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[Book] Cox, Julian, Ford, Colin. Julia Margaret Cameron: the complete photographs.
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[Catalogue] 2005. Photographs: Sotheby's sale catalogue, 15 Nov 2005. London: Sotheby's, London.
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[Book] Gernsheim, Helmut. Julia Margaret Cameron; her life and photographic work.
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[Catalogue] Wolf, Sylvia. 1998. Julia Margaret Cameron's women. n.p.: Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
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[Book] Gernsheim, Helmut. Julia Margaret Cameron: her life and photographic work.
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[Catalogue] Hamilton, Violet. 1996. Annals of my glass house: photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron. n.p.: Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College in association with University of Washington press.