Sunday, August 17, 2025

Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait of Julia Jackson
ca. 1864-65
albumen print
Art Institute of Chicago


Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait of Julia Jackson
ca. 1867
albumen print
Art Institute of Chicago

Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait of Julia Jackson
(future mother of Virginia Woolf)
1874
albumen print
Art Institute of Chicago

Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait of Christina Spartali
ca. 1865-70
albumen print
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait of Mary Fisher
1867
albumen print
Art Institute of Chicago

Julia Margaret Cameron
Saint Joan
1872
albumen print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait of Annie Chinery Cameron
(Julia Margaret Cameron's daughter-in-law)
ca. 1869-70
albumen print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Julia Margaret Cameron
Mary Hillier (The Dream)
1869
albumen print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Julia Margaret Cameron
May Prinsep (Isabel)
1870
albumen print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Julia Margaret Cameron
On Wings of Morning
1877
albumen print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Julia Margaret Cameron
The God of Love
ca. 1865
albumen print
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC


 

Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait of James Thomas Fields
(American publisher)
1869
albumen print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1868
albumen print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Julia Margaret Cameron
Prospero and Miranda
ca. 1865
albumen print
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Julia Margaret Cameron
English Flowers
1873
albumen print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Julia Margaret Cameron
And Enid Sang
1874
albumen print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from Metamorphoses

The Clods, as if Inform'd with some new Soul,
Forthwith take motion, and begin to rowl;
First tops of Lances pierce the teeming Ground,
Whose very Birth tells they are made to Wound:
Then rising Casks their painted Crests display
Whose Form at once shews terrible and gay:
Next may he Shoulders, Breasts, and Arms descry,
Whose brandish'd Spears proclaim some Battle nigh:
Until at length in perfect view appears
A growing Harvest of young Cuirassiers.
Thus we in Theaters, the Scenes withdrew,
When some more solemn Spectacle they shew,
See Images in slow Machines arise,
Still mounting by insensible degrees;
New-peeping Heads our longing View first greet,
And humble Faces levell with our Feet:
Next gliding Trunks are in soft order shown,
And neather Limbs heave upper gently on;
So still their Motion, their Ascent so slow,
You'd justly think they did not move, but grow:
At last their sluggish Feet advanc'd in sight,
Present as Statues in full Bulk and Height:
Mean while we struck with fix'd Amazement stare,
And marvel what strange Conveyance brought 'em there,
Made by Surprize more Statues then they are:
No less astonished doubtfull Cadmus gaz'd,
Doubly, by Wonder, and by Fear amaz'd. 

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by John Oldham (before 1683)