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Florence [Fisher]
Julia Margaret Cameron, born 1815 - died 1879 - Enlarge image
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Florence [Fisher]
- Object:
Photograph
- Place of origin:
Isle of Wight, England (photographed)
- Date:
1872 (photographed)
- Artist/Maker:
Julia Margaret Cameron, born 1815 - died 1879 (photographer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Albumen print from wet collodion glass negative
- Credit Line:
Provenance not documented
- Museum number:
209-1969
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level H, case X, shelf 311, box Q
Florence Fisher was Julia Margaret Cameron's great niece. Cameron made six studies of her, one of which she titled a 'Study of St. John the Baptist'. There is a striking intensity to this portrait achieved through the large scale of the study, Fisher's direct frontal gaze and the contrast between light and dark tones (the delicacy of her skin, the white dress she wears and the dark background out of which she emerges). Cameron incorporated flowers and foliage into her photographs for symbolic and compositional purposes. Her female sitters often hold lilies and roses or are surrounded, sometimes even physically enveloped, by nature. In 1855 she wrote to Tennyson " I always think that flowers tell as much of the bounty of God's love as the Firmament shows of His handiwork."
