Julia Margaret Cameron - Sir John Herschel - image-1

Lot 4 Dα

Julia Margaret Cameron - Sir John Herschel

Auction 1077 - overview Cologne
02.12.2016, 15:00 - Photography
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.200 €
Result: 992 € (incl. premium)

Julia Margaret Cameron

Sir John Herschel
1867

Carbon print, printed 1870s. 33.5 x 26.5 cm. 'Autotype' blindstamp lower right. Flush-mounted to original card. Accompanied by original wooden frame, artist's studio label on the reverse of the frame. - Two folds in the lower image. Very slight foxing..

"Shortly before her departure for Ceylon in 1975, 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 1970s. The prints were made from positive transparencies created directly from Cameron's original negatives." (cited after Julian Cox/Colin Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron. The Complete Photographs, London 2003, p. 500).

Provenance

Private collection, London

Literature

Julian Cox/Colin Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron. The Complete Photographs, London 2003, ill. p. 324.