拍品專文
The majority of the portraits in this and the following fifteen lots were acquired at auction in 1978 in a small album of forty-four carte-de-visite portraits by Cameron titled Miniature Edition of Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life. A few additional examples were acquired individually at approximately the same time. Although Cameron no doubt wanted to increase her income from photography by selling these smaller copies of her famous larger-than-life portrait heads, their relative scarcity today indicates that the venture was not very successful. In addition to the album mentioned above, one other containing fifty photographs inscribed by Cameron These are reduced from Mrs. Cameron's Life-Sized Photographic Portraits. For Beta Murray on her seventeenth Birthday from her friend Julia Margaret Cameron....1870 was sold in auction at Christie's, London, in July 1972.