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Julia Margaret Cameron — Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895)
Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895)

1874

One of Cameron's most celebrated portraits, this luminous study of Virginia Woolf's future mother demonstrates the photographer's revolutionary use of soft focus to achieve painterly, spiritual effects.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative

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Julia Margaret Cameron, Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895), 1874

One of Cameron's most celebrated portraits, this luminous study of Virginia Woolf's future mother demonstrates the photographer's revolutionary use of soft focus to achieve painterly, spiritual effects.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Year
1874
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, Albumen Print, Serene, Photograph, Historical, Portrait, British, Woman, Figurative

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art