The photographs:
Madonnas and Angelic Children
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
Light and love, 1865
albumen silver photograph
21.6 x 26.0 cm
The Wilson Centre for Photography
96:5530
In photographs such as this mother and child study, Cameron's Madonnas are
beautiful women posed as chaste mothers.
In her series of Madonnas, taken in
the style of the Renaissance painter Raphael, Cameron combined her
aspirations to High Art with the idealisation of family sanctity, thus
relating the divine to the domestic.
Cameron's grandson, Archie Cameron, is
the baby in this study while Mary Hillier is the mother figure. Archie
appears as a 'divine child' in two other photographs in this exhibition.
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