[The Overstone Album: portraits, tableaux, and noted personalities]

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[The Overstone Album: portraits, tableaux, and noted personalities]

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Julia Margaret Cameron

British Photographer · 1815–1879

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After receiving a camera as a gift, Julia Margaret Cameron began her career in photography at the age of forty-eight. She produced the majority of her work from her home at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. By the coercive force of her eccentric personality, she enlisted everyone around her as models, from family members to domestic servants and local residents. The wife of a retired jurist, Camero

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Date: 1864–1865
Medium: Various, see extensions
Culture: British
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

112 mounted prints, some dated and signed. Overstone Album: portraits, tableaux, and famous personalities, originally presented by Cameron to Lord Overstone. The album cover is made of wood. The front cover has an intricate fern design is carved into its face.

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