Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)

REBECCA, 1866. Albumen print from a wet collodion negative, pasted down to period mount, image size 34.5 x 28cm, mount size 58.5 x 46cm, signed and annotated "Freshwater" / "From Life Registered Photograph Copyright" by the photographer in ink lower margin, annotated 'Haidee' in pencil lower margin, with Colnaghi blinstamp recto. Additionally annotated by the Reverend Archer Clive "Mrs Feilden Dulas" in pencil upper margin.

Col. Robert Feilden lived at Dulas Court, between 1858 and 1868, only a few miles from the Clives in Herefordshire.

There are at least seven prints from this sitting housed by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, some citing an alternative title of Zoe. (Refs. RPS.1076-2017; PROV.1105-2017; 25-1939; RPS.1056-2017; RPS.1073-2017)

Literature:

Cox, Ford, Lukitsh and Wright. Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs. London: Thames & Hudson, in association with The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, 2003, cat. no.548, p.280.

The Reverend Clive (1800-1877) and his wife, novelist Caroline Clive (1801-1873), by descent.