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Sadness

Photograph
1864 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Cameron, Julia Margaret (photographer)
Place of origin
England (photographed)

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

Categories
Photographs
Portraits
The Royal Photographic Society
RPS Digitisation Project
Woman Artist
Woman Photographer
Object type
Photograph
TitleSadness (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Carbon print from copy negative
Paper
Carbon
Photography
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.
Dimensions
  • Mount height: 562mm
  • Mount width: 452mm
  • Image diameter: 240mm
Style
Victorian
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
Subjects depicted
Portraits
Terry, Ellen
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
Other numbers
  • XRP1487 - RPS collection - V&A identifier
  • 2316/1 - Royal Photographic Society number
  • 2003-5001/2/21477 - Science Museum Group accession number
Collection
Department of Photography
Accession number
RPS.1296-2017

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Record createdMay 31, 2017
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1394433/sadness-photograph-cameron-julia-margaret/
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