The Sunflower

early 1870s

Julia Margaret Cameron

Artist, British, 1815 - 1879

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 35.2 x 24.3 cm (13 7/8 x 9 9/16 in.)
    mount: 58.3 x 46.3 cm (22 15/16 x 18 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.29.14

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(John Hewett, London); Howard and Jane Ricketts, London, 1973 or 1974; NGA purchase, 2007.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848 - 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2010 - 2011, no. 98.

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

On mount below photograph, by Julia Margaret Cameron, in ink: From Life Registered Photograph Copyright. Julia Margaret Cameron Freshwater/ The Sunflower.; lower center Colnaghi blindstamp

Wikidata ID

Q64156133

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