On loan
  • On short term loan out for exhibition

I Wait

Photograph
1872 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Photograph of a child with wings resting her head on her crossed arms.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • I Wait (assigned by artist)
  • Rachel Gurney (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Albumen print from wet collodion on glass negative
Brief description
Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 'I Wait', albumen print, 1872
Physical description
Photograph of a child with wings resting her head on her crossed arms.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 25.5cm
  • Image width: 21.3cm
  • Mount height: 39cm
  • Mount width: 30cm
Style
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
Subject depicted
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. 890, p. 388
Other numbers
  • XRP1487 - RPS collection - V&A identifier
  • 2562 - Royal Photographic Society number
  • 2003-5001/2/23328 - Science Museum Group accession number
Collection
Accession number
RPS.1297-2017

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Record createdJune 30, 2017
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