Sadness
Photograph
1864 (photographed)
1864 (photographed)
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Circular-shaped photograph of a standing woman, shown in profile from the waist up. Her head is leaning against a patterned wall and her hand is placed at her throat.
Object details
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| Title | Sadness (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Carbon print from copy negative |
| Brief description | Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 'Sadness', carbon print, 1864 |
| Physical description | Circular-shaped photograph of a standing woman, shown in profile from the waist up. Her head is leaning against a patterned wall and her hand is placed at her throat. |
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| Credit line | The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund. |
| Production | copyright June 30, 1864 |
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| Associated object | PROV.2495-2017 (RPS Group record) |
| Bibliographic reference | Cox, Julian and Colin Ford, with contributions by Joanne Lukitsh and Philippa Wright. Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs. London: Thames & Hudson, in association with The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, 2003. ISBN: 0-500-54265-1
Cat. no. 496, p. 267 |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | RPS.1296-2017 |
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| Record created | May 31, 2017 |
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