Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)

MRS HERBERT DUCKWORTH [JULIA JACKSON], 1867. Albumen print from a collodion negative, pasted down to period card, image/sheet size 345 x 265mm, card size 385 x 290mm, signed, dated, and inscribed '...April 1867 Julia Margaret Cameron. For her beloved Mother', by the photographer in ink lower margin recto. [inscription and signature obscured by residual adhesive to mount]

PROVENANCE: Herbert W. Fisher (1826-1903), thence by descent. Fisher was married to Julia Margaret Cameron's niece, Mary Louisa Jackson (1841-1915), daughter of John Jackson (1804-1887) and Maria T. A. Pattle (1818-1892), Cameron's sister. Julia Jackson, the present subject, was the younger sister of Mary Louisa, and became one of Cameron's best known sitters.