St Agnes (Alice Liddell)

Julia Margaret Cameron
Britain
1815 – 1879

St Agnes (Alice Liddell)
1872
albumen-silver photograph
Place made
Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England
Geographical location
Isle of Wight
Medium
albumen-silver photograph
Dimensions
33.7 x 22.7 cm (image & sheet)
58.6 x 46.5 cm (mount)
Credit line
Roy and Marjory Edwards Bequest Fund 2005
Accession number
20057Ph6
Signature and date
Signed on mount, l.r., pen & ink "Julia Margaret Cameron Freshwater Sep 1872".
Catalogue raisonne
Cox and Ford (2003) nos. 351-353
Media category
Photograph
Collection area
British Photographs

  • WALL LABEL: Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography, 2016

     

    Julia Margaret Cameron was born in 1815 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, and educated in France before she moved to England in 1848 with her husband and six children. She took up photography in earnest at the age of forty-eight after receiving a camera as a gift from her daughter and son-in-law in December 1863.

     

    In England, Cameron moved in a social circle that included many of the most influential scientists, academics, writers and artists of Victorian England, many of whom she photographed. While Cameron made direct portraits of her family and friends, she also asked them to pose for her as biblical, historical or allegorical figures.

     

    In St Agnes (Alice Liddell), Cameron has photographed the adolescent Alice Liddell. As a child, Liddell was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s (Charles L. Dodgson) famous literary works, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872).

     

    Julie Robinson, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

     

  • Julia Margaret Cameron

    Art Gallery of New South Wales, 14 August 2015 – 25 October 2015

  • YOUR Gallery

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 29 November 2012 – 17 March 2013

  • Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 February 2016 – 18 September 2016
  • [Journal] Art Gallery of South Australia Newsletter.
    Art Gallery of South Australia Newsletter Vol. 6, no. 16 (Sept. 1985)-v. 6, no. 54 (Mar. 1989)
  • [Book] Cox, Julian, Ford, Colin. Julia Margaret Cameron: the complete photographs.
  • [Catalogue] 2005. Photographs: Sotheby's sale catalogue, 15 Nov 2005. London: Sotheby's, London.
  • [Book] Gernsheim, Helmut. Julia Margaret Cameron; her life and photographic work.
  • [Catalogue] Wolf, Sylvia. 1998. Julia Margaret Cameron's women. n.p.: Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
  • [Book] Gernsheim, Helmut. Julia Margaret Cameron: her life and photographic work.
  • [Catalogue] Hamilton, Violet. 1996. Annals of my glass house: photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron. n.p.: Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College in association with University of Washington press.