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The photographs:
Famous Men and Fair Women
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
Head of Mrs Herbert Duckworth, 1872
albumen silver photograph
27.4 x 35.7cm
The Wilson Centre for Photography
84:1560
This photograph is also titled A beautiful vision and is one of several
that Cameron took of her niece at Saxonbury Lodge, the Jackson family home in
Kent. Another image in the exhibition titled Mrs Herbert Duckworth was taken
at the same time. Julia was widowed two years earlier and her black dress and
white bonnet indicate that she is still in mourning. In some of the images in
the series she is posed with young children, she does not smile for the
camera and her expression is grave and distant. She did not marry again until
1878, eight years after her first husband's death.
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