Live Auction 17878The Face of the Century: Photographs from a Private Collection
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815–1879)
Lot 102

JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815–1879)

Mary of Bethany (Mary Hillier), 1865

Closed2 April 2019

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USD 5,000

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JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815–1879)
Mary of Bethany (Mary Hillier), 1865
albumen print, mounted on paper
signed, titled and annotated 'From Life' in ink (mount, recto); variously annotated in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 1/8 in. (21 x 25.8 cm.)
mount: 11 x 14 3/8 in. (28 x 36.5 cm.)

Daniel Wolf Inc., New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

The comely Mary Hillier as Mary of Bethany. Catalogue number 154 in Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs by Julian Cox and Colin Ford. At the time of publication of Cox’s work, only one print was known to exist, which had been a gift of the artist to Lord and Lady Elcho, and which remains in the family. The photograph offered here, then, is a previously unaccounted for print.