The grandmother
Photograph
1865 (photographed)
1865 (photographed)
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Julia Margaret Cameron's mentor and friend, the artist G.F. Watts wrote to Cameron, ‘Please do not send me valuable mounted copies … send me any … defective unmounted impressions, I shall be able to judge just as well & shall be just as much charmed with success & shall not feel that I am taking money from you.’ This is one of approximately 67 in the V&A's collection that was recently discovered to have belonged to him. Many are unique, which suggests that Cameron was not fully satisfied with them. Some may seem ‘defective’ but others are enhanced by their flaws. All of them contribute to our understanding of Cameron’s working process and the photographs that did meet her standards.
Object details
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| Title | The grandmother (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Albumen print from wet collodion glass negative. |
| Brief description | Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 'The grandmother' (sitters unknown girl, Sarah Groves), albumen print, 1865 |
| Physical description | A photograph of an old woman (Sarah Groves) wearing a bonnet with a young girl leaning into her right shoulder. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs Margaret Southam, 1941 |
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| Literary reference | 'The Grandmother', poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1864 |
| Summary | Julia Margaret Cameron's mentor and friend, the artist G.F. Watts wrote to Cameron, ‘Please do not send me valuable mounted copies … send me any … defective unmounted impressions, I shall be able to judge just as well & shall be just as much charmed with success & shall not feel that I am taking money from you.’ This is one of approximately 67 in the V&A's collection that was recently discovered to have belonged to him. Many are unique, which suggests that Cameron was not fully satisfied with them. Some may seem ‘defective’ but others are enhanced by their flaws. All of them contribute to our understanding of Cameron’s working process and the photographs that did meet her standards. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | PH.352-1981 |
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| Record created | April 6, 2009 |
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