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CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET (1815-1879)
"The sacred and lovely remains of my little adopted child Adeline Grace Clogstoun." Albumen print, 5 1/2x7 3/4 inches (14x19.7 cm.), with a Colnaghi blind stamp on mount recto. 1872
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Notes: Cameron made four different "memento mori" photographs of Adeline, the granddaughter of Cameron's eldest sister, who died in a tragic accident while roughhousing with her sister. Each image was carefully composed to show the deep emotional connection betweeen Cameron and the child.
This image is reproduced in julia margaret cameron, the complete photographs (Los Angeles, 2003), pl. 935.
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