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A Vestal


Artist (English, b. India 1815–1879)
Datec. 1865
MediumAlbumen print from wet collodion glass negative
DimensionsSheet: 9 3/8 x 7 1/2 in. (23.8 x 19.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number69.3
ClassificationsPhotograph
Object NamePhotograph
CultureNorthern European
NationalityEnglish
On View
Not on view
Century
  • Nineteenth
More Information
Signedbottom right: Julia Margaret Cameron
Inscribedbottom center: A Vestal; bottom left: From Life; embossed stamp: "Registered Photograph Colnaghi"
Exhibition HistoryEva Watson-Schütze: Pictorialist Portraits, Palmer Museum of Art, January 10 - April 30, 2017; Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, June 5 - August 19, 2007ProvenanceSchoelkopf GalleryPublished ReferencesAFTERIMAGE, November 1975, Vol. 3, No. 5, p. 6, article by Anita Ventura Mozley.