[George Frederic Watts Album]

[George Frederic Watts Album]

Bound volume

Julia Margaret Cameron

Maker
British, b. India, 1815–1879

[George Frederic Watts Album]

1864
Bound volume with albumen silver prints and pencil drawings
Overall (closed): 12 3/16 × 10 1/16 × 2 1/8 in. (31 × 25.6 × 5.4 cm)
Purchase with funds from an anonymous donor
1971.0109.0001-0056
Inscriptions internal page (ink):
To the Signor [encircled] to whose generosity / I owe the choicest fruits of / his immortal genius I / offer these my first successes / in my mortal yet / divine! [underlined] art of photography / Julia Margaret Cameron / Fresh Water Bay / Isle of Wight / Febr. 22d 64 / my Eugene's Birthday / 24

small cloth adhesive label on cover (ink): A few drawings / 31 / & Mrs. Cameron's photographs

inside cover (pencil, later hand): Ronald Chapman / contains 39 photos / 13 drawings / 7 loose photos

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