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Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) - Portrait of Blanche Vere Guest (1847-1919), (from 1875 The Countess of Bessborough), - an albumen print mounted on card, inscribed by JMC: Registered Photograph Freshwater Oct. 1864 - For Blanche from her friend Julia Margaret Cameron, in ink,

cf. Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs, by Julian Cox and Colin Ford, image 230 for an example of this scarce albumen print. image 25.5 x 20.9cm
Note: Julia Margaret Cameron lived in Dimbola Lodge (now a museum and gallery) in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, from 1860 to 1875. Amongst her friends, known as the Freshwater Circle, were her near neighbour and Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson, the actress Ellen Terry, William Holman Hunt and Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], author of Alice in Wonderland and many other bohemian writers, poets and artists.

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Auction Date:

27th Sep 22 at 9:30am BST