
Lot 166
CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET) Ellen Terry, 1864 (but printed 1913)
23 March 2022, 14:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£700 - £900
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CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET)
Ellen Terry, photogravure on tissue paper, tipped onto thick laid paper, published in 'Camera Work', image 158mm. diameter, sheet 295 x 210mm., 1864 (but printed 1913)
Footnotes
"This image of Ellen Terry (1847-1928) is one of the few known photographs of a female celebrity by Julia Margaret Cameron. Terry, the popular child actress of the British stage, was sixteen years old when Cameron made this image" (adapted from Cox, Julia Margaret Cameron, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996).
In 1913 Alfred Stieglitz devoted an issue of his periodical Camera Work to Cameron, publishing her photographs alongside his own and writing that she was "one of photography's few 'classics'" ('Our Plates,' Camera Work 41, January 1913, p.41).