Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron, Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin, 1868

Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879)

RA Collection: Art

Photogravure printed by Cameron and his partner J.C. Smith from negatives by Julia Margaret Cameron for the publication Alfred, Lord Tennyson And His Friends.

Charles Darwin and his family visited Freshwater in the summer of 1868. Mrs Cameron's kindness and hospitality were such that Darwin always retained a warm feeling of friendship for her. In her reminiscences in Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends Anne Thackeray Ritchie describes how Mrs Cameron took the opportunity to photograph Darwin and how in a letter 'warmly approving' her picture, he added 'there are sixteen people in my house, and every one your friend.'

Object details

Title

Charles Darwin

Photographed by

Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879)

Printed by

Henry Herschel Hay Cameron? (1852 - 1911) and J.C. Smith?

From

Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends A Series of 25 Portraits and Frontispiece in Photogravure From The Negatives Of Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron And H.H.H. Cameron Reminiscences By Anne Thackeray Ritchie With Introduction by H.H. Hay Cameron

Date

1868

Object type

Photogravure

Place of Production

London

Medium

Photogravure

Dimensions

219 mm x 192 mm

Collection

Royal Academy of Arts

Object number

11/4051

This image is from a book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson And His Friends A Series of 25 Portraits and Frontispiece In Photogravure From The Negatives Of Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron And H.H.H. Cameron Reminiscences By Anne Thackeray Ritchie With Introduction By H.H. Hay Cameron - London: 1893

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