Photograph entitled 'La Contadina' taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1866. Albumen contact print from wet collodion negative. This photographic study of Mary Emily ' May' Prinsep (1853-1931) forms part of the Herschel Album, created by Cameron for her friend Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). La Contadina is Italian for 'peasant girl'. The term was often used as a title for works of art in the Victorian period.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1984-5017/87
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
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overall: 331 mm x 270 mm
- type:
- photograph and albumen print
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
- credit:
- Sotheby's
