JULIA MARGARET CAMERON

'Hypatia', 1867

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JULIA MARGARET CAMERON
'Hypatia', 1867
Albumen print, 36 x 2¼ in., mounted as carte-de-visite, signed in ink From life Registered Julia Margaret Cameron and with inscription in pencil Hypatia on mount.
Literature
Gernsheim, ibid., p. 145 (illus.) and p. 192.

Lot Essay

The model for this study was Marie Spartali. Gernsheim states that the elaborate costume was copied from one painted several times by Rossetti, and that the title was taken from the novel of the same name by Charles Kingsley. She holds the same fan and has the same beads as in the previous study.

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