The Sunflower, early 1870s

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

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.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Accession Number

2007.29.14

Artists / Makers

Julia Margaret Cameron (artist) British, 1815 - 1879

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Kraus, Jr., Inc., Hans P.

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.