A Minstrel Group, 1867

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 35.08 x 29.21 cm (13 13/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
mount: 57.15 x 46.36 cm (22 1/2 x 18 1/4 in.)
mat: 71.12 x 55.88 cm (28 x 22 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation

Accession Number

2018.7.11

Artists / Makers

Julia Margaret Cameron (artist) British, 1815 - 1879

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, lower right corner in graphite: The Minstrel Group We Sing a show / Contented song & knock at Paradise / Mary Ryan, Kalie & Liz Kolrow 1867 / J1016 / 5111/27

Marks and Labels

oval stamp on bottom (imprint): Registered Photograph, London, Sold by Mssrs Colnaghi, 14 Pall Mall East

Provenance

Erich Sommer, London; (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1994; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs Photographs, Charles

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. 91.

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