id: 156056 accession number: 1991.307 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.307 updated: 2023-08-23 23:13:00.438000 The Lily and the Lamb, c. 1865. Julia Margaret Cameron (British, 1815–1879). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 18.3 x 26 cm (7 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Janet Lehr, N.Y., in honor of Evan H. Turner 1991.307 title: The Lily and the Lamb title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1865 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1870 current location: creditline: Gift of Janet Lehr, N.Y., in honor of Evan H. Turner copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative department: Photography collection: Photography type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Julia Margaret Cameron (British, 1815–1879) - artist Julia Margaret Cameron British, 1815-1879 Born in Calcutta to a French mother and an English father employed by the East India Company, Julia Margaret Cameron was a key figure in the development of photography both in Britain and abroad. She was sent, under the care of her grandmother, to France for her education. Marriage to jurist Charles Hay Cameron took her back to India in 1838, and to England in 1848, where in 1860 the family finally settled on the Isle of Wight. Three years later Cameron received her first camera, a gift from her daughter, as a way to pass the time while her husband was away on an extended trip to Ceylon. For the next 15 years, Cameron's passion for photography, and her fortunate position among Britain's cultural elite, allowed her to produce a series of portraits, allegories, and illustrations that are among the most admired and influential of photographic images. Frequently marked by a loose, soft style, her portraits of well-known figures, such as Sir John Herschel, Thomas Carlyle, and Ellen Terry, reveal her subject's character in an unusually forceful manner. Her allegories and tableaux often include neighbors and friends like Lord Tennyson and her artistic mentor, the Pre-Raphaelite painter G. F. Watts. In 1874 she illustrated Tennyson's popular long poem Idylls of the King. In 1875, after the death of her daughter, Cameron returned to Ceylon with her husband, joining their five sons. There she continued to photograph until her death in 1879. A later generation was introduced to Cameron's work by Alfred Stieglitz, who reproduced a selection from it in Camera Work. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 18.3 x 26 cm (7 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in brown ink on recto: "registered/The Lily and the Lamb"; in pencil on verso: "JM Cameron"; "$1500"; "This image was used as/Lower half of/Cameron Composite/The Madonnas [sic]/and Child"; "5 [circled]"; "21 [circled]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary opening date: 1992-10-27T05:00:00 Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993). title: Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth opening date: 1996-11-20T05:00:00 Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20-February 2, 1996). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, October 27, 1992 - November 3, 1993: "Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's Seventy-Fifth Anniversary."
CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95. page number: Reproduced: p. 267 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418 Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 118 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.307/1991.307_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.307/1991.307_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.307/1991.307_full.tif