Lot 4 Dα

"Shortly before her departure for Ceylon in 1875, Cameron approached the Autotype Company in Ealing, London, to make carbon prints of approximately seventy of her most successful images. [...] Carbon prints were highly regarded for their permanency, even density, and lustrous tones, and the Autotype Company, experts in the field, plied a very successful trade in them throughout the 1870s. The prints were made from positive transparencies created directly from Cameron's original negatives."
(zit. nach Julian Cox/Colin Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron. The Complete Photographs, London 2003, S. 500).