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I Wait
1872

Venus Chiding Cupid
1872

Holy Family
1872

Rosebud Garland of Girls
1868

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) created these images with glass-plate negatives during a succession of summertimes on the Isle of Wight in the 1860s and 1870s. She photographed her relatives, her servants and her many visiting friends. Many pages have been written about the patience and suffering of Mrs. Cameron's subjects in the service of her art. Prints from trhe J. Paul Getty Museum.

Prayer & Praise
1865

Paul & Virginia
1864

Parting of Lancelot & Guinevere
1874

Charles Norton & his daughters Adeline & Margaret
1874

Whispers of the Muse
1865

Professor Jowett
1864

Charles Hay Cameron
1864

Ellen Terry at age sixteen
1864

Today, the two most famous Victorian photographers are Julia Margaret Cameron and Lewis Carroll. For that reason I was interested to come across a quote from Lewis Carroll after he had attended a photography exhibition in London: "I did not admire Mrs. Cameron's large heads, taken out of focus. The best of the life ones were Lady Hawarden's." 

Tomorrow this space will look (not for the first time) at the work of Clementina Hawarden, who won the regard of Lewis Carroll at the expense of Julia Margaret Cameron.