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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.323
People
Julia Margaret Cameron, British (Calcutta, India 1815 - 1879 Kalutara, Ceylon)
Title
Vivien and Merlin
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Other Poems
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1874
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/285105

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 32 x 27 cm (12 5/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on mount below image, recto, black ink, signed, in artist's hand: From Life Registered Photograph Copyright- Julia Margaret Cameron

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., New York, New York, sold to Seiden & de Cuevas Inc., 1977.
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, New York, purchased from Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, N, 1977, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1982. on Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1977 to 1982

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Object Number
P1982.323
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), 295
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Jennifer Quick, ed., Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981–2001, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 30, 32, fig. 1, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • New Presences at the Fogg, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/20/1978 - 11/28/1978
  • New Presences in the Fogg Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/20/1978 - 11/28/1978
  • The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
  • Chasing Shadows, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/1995 - 04/02/1995
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Reproduction/Production, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/29/2005 - 04/10/2005
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/12/2010 - 01/15/2011
  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/04/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights
  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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