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Julia Margaret Cameron: the Val Prinsep Album Lot 244 English Literature, History, Children’S Books and Illustrations JULIA MARGARET CAMERON: THE VAL PRINSEP ALBUM LOT 244 ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, children’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON 10 DECEMBER 2013 JULIA MARGARET CAMERON: THE VAL PRINSEP ALBUM LOT 244 ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREn’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS AUCTION IN LONDON 10 DECEMBER 2013 SALE L13408 2.30 PM EXHIBITION Friday 6 December 9 am-4.30 pm Saturday 7 December 12 noon-5 pm Sunday 8 December 12 noon-5 pm Monday 9 December 9 am-4.30 pm 34-35 New Bond Street London, W1A 2AA +44 (0)20 7293 5000 sothebys.com SPECIALISTS AND AUCTION ENQUIRIES For further information on lots in this auction please contact any of the specialists listed below. SALE NUMBER SALE ADMINISTRATOR Simone Klein L13408 “CAROLINE” Joanna Lowe Photographs [email protected] Director, Specialist BIDS DEPARTMENT +44 (0)20 7293 5287 +33 (0)1 53 05 52 26 +44 (0)20 7293 5283 fax +44 (0)20 72936297 [email protected] fax +44 (0)20 7293 6255 [email protected] POST SALE SERVICES Elliott Depree Telephone bid requests should Post Sale Manager be received 24 hours prior FOR PAYMENT, DELIVERY to the sale. This service is AND COLLECTION Brandei Estes offered for lots with a low estimate +44 (0)20 7293 5220 Photographs of £2,000 and above. fax +44 (0)20 7293 5910 Deputy Director, Specialist [email protected] +44 (0)20 7293 5586 PRIVATE CLIENT GROUP [email protected] Maureen Hooft Graafland, FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS CALL Head of Department +44 (0)20 7293 5000 Alexandra Brenninkmeyer for UK & Europe Annabel O’Keeffe +1 212 894 7000 USA Celsa Susino Ramirez Richard Fattorini Nadia Jalaluddin Books & Manuscripts Jane Coppee Director, Specialist Karen Levy Fergus Duff +44 (0)20 7293 5301 Penny Johanna Beer [email protected] +44 (0)20 7293 6429 [email protected] asIA CLIENT LIAISON Wei-Ting Huang +44 (0)20 7293 5958 [email protected] MENA CLIENT LIAISON Katia Nounou +44 (0)20 7293 5372 [email protected] RUssIA & CIS CLIENT LIAISON Alina Davey [email protected] Irina Kronrod [email protected] Lilija Sitnika [email protected] +44 (0)20 7293 5595 ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, Children’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 244 CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET The Val Prinsep Album Large folio (457 x 322mm.), PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION IN INK BY JULIA MARGARET CAMERON TO VAL PRINSEP ON UPPER PASTEDOWN, MANUSCRIPT LIST OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS IN PENCIL BY CAMERON, 32 ALBUMEN PRINTS (from 249 x 194mm. to 355 x 258mm.), individually mounted on card, recto only, original blind embossed red cloth, spine worn (lacking backstrip), covers discoloured AN UNRECORDED AND PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY JULIA MARGARET CAMERON, SPECIALLY COMPILED FOR HER NEPHEW VAL PRINSEP, AND INSCRIBED TO him: “A BIRTHDAY GIFT | FOR MY GODSON & ILLUSTRIOUS NEPHEW!!!! | FROM HIS OLD AUNTIE | JULIA MARGARET CAMERON | 14TH Feb. 1869.” REFERENCES Cox, Julian and Colin Ford. Julia Margaret Cameron. The Complete Photographs. (J. Paul Getty Trust and National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, 2003) Ford, Colin. Julia Margaret Cameron 19th Century Photographer of Genius (National Portrait Gallery, 2003) The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848-1875 (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2010) PROVENANCE Presented by Julia Margaret Cameron to her godson and nephew Val Prinsep as a 31st birthday present on 14th February 1869 (presentation inscription in ink on upper pastedown). Small lozenge shaped paper library label with gold decorative border attached to upper pastedown at the centre lower edge with text in ink: ‘Library, Case 1, Cupboard R., Shelf 2, -595-.’ £ 250,000-350,000 € 296,000-415,000 (Opposite 1. Christobel) 4 SOTHEBY’S (2. Sir John Herschel life size) (3.Sir John Herschel with cap) (6. Henry Taylor, Rembrandt) (7. Henry Taylor, hand to beard) (4. Adriana) (5. Alfred Tennyson profile) (9. Miss [Hatty and Eleanor] Campbell’s group) (10. Mary Mother) 6 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, Children’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS (11. New Mary [Hillier] ) (12. Miss Spartali as Hypatia) Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) is recognised as one of the Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838-1904), known as Val most influential female figures in the history of photography, Prinsep, was an artist and writer, born on St Valentine’s Day and this album was compiled by her at the height of her in Calcutta to Henry Thoby Prinsep, Indian civil servant and powers. The images include examples of all three of her great author, and his wife Sara Monckton, sister of Julia Margaret photographic themes: portraits of illustrious men, including Sir Cameron, and one of seven daughters of James Pattle. From John Herschel (who introduced her to photography); portraits 1851 the Prinseps lived at Little Holland House in Kensington. of women, including the famous image of her niece Mrs The house was shared with the artist George Frederic Watts Herbert Duckworth (the mother of Virginia Woolf); and friends and regular guests included Tennyson, Thackeray, Browning, and family in allegorical studies. The album includes two Holman Hunt, Millais, Leighton, D.G. Rossetti, and Burne- unrecorded photographs by Cameron of her maid Mary Hillier Jones; many of these were photographed by Julia Margaret and an unrecorded variant of a third photograph of Hillier Cameron. Val Prinsep became an artist and was tutored as Adriana. The album also reveals the name of a previously by Watts, and in 1857 he came under the influence of Pre- unidentified female sitter, now known to be Miss Sloane Raphaelitism when invited by Rossetti to help decorate the Stanley, a family friend of Julia Margaret Cameron. Union debating chamber in Oxford with scenes from Mallory’s Morte d’Arthur. Prinsep’s closest friend was Frederic Leighton, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN 30 YEARS THAT AN ALBUM and in 1889 the two built neighbouring studio houses in Holland OF CAMEROn’s PHOTOGRAPHS COMPILED BY HER FOR Park Road. Prinsep exhibited at the Royal Academy and in 1877 PRESENTATION HAS BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE AT AUCTION. was commissioned by Lord Lytton, viceroy of India, to paint ONLY 10 OTHER SUCH ALBUMS ARE RECORDED, NEARLY the Delhi imperial assemblage to celebrate Queen Victoria’s ALL OF WHICH ARE IN INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS. (Opposite 13. New Mary [Hillier] ) 8 SOTHEBY’S (14. Miss D[uckworth] light on profile) (15. Friar Laurence) (16. Miss D[uckworth] life size portrait) (17. The Mountain Nymph) accession to the title empress of India. In 1884 Prinsep married Cameron worked within a circle of painters and critics and is Florence, daughter of Frederick Richard Leyland, a Liverpool the photographer now most associated with Pre-Raphaelitism. shipping millionaire and patron of Rossetti, Burne-Jones and “A woman with a vigorous mind and abundant imagination, Whistler. Prinsep was elected a royal academician in 1894 and Cameron adopted an inventive range of literary and historical appointed professor of painting in 1901. He continued to paint themes, like her Pre-Raphaelite counterparts... and [usually] every year until his death in 1904. kept the settings and backgrounds of her photographs indistinct and closely cropped. Her images typically situate Julia Margaret Cameron photographed her nephew Val Prinsep figure against background in a manner similar to paintings by on at least three occasions between 1864 and 1874 (on the Rossetti and Watts, whom she fervently esteemed.” (Diane last occasion Prinsep was dressed in costume as Henry VIII), Waggoner in The Pre-Raphaelite Lens). The rediscovery of this and five different prints of these photographs are recorded Val Prinsep album is a significant event and contributes greatly [Cox and Ford 741-745]. It is interesting that Julia Margaret to our knowledge and to the oeuvre of Julia Margaret Cameron. Cameron chose not to include any of her portraits of Prinsep in this album, however she did include a photograph of Val Prinsep (by an unidentified photographer) in the “Signor 1857” album (sold in these rooms, 12 December 2012, lot 65) which was presented to the artist G.F. Watts. (18. Life sized new pensive Mary [Hiller] ) (19. Miss [Hatty] Campbell profile) 10 SOTHEBY’S ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, Children’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS The photographs appear in the following order (the titles to each image are those given by Cameron in this album): 1. Christobel (314 x 245mm.), [Cox and Ford 396] 2. Sir John Herschel life size (345 x 250mm.), [Cox and Ford 676] 3.Sir John Herschel with cap (336 x 254mm.), [Cox and Ford 674] 4. Adriana (355 x 256mm.), [unrecorded variant; cf. Cox and Ford 255] 5. Alfred Tennyson profile (249 x 202mm.), [Cox and Ford 796] 6. Henry Taylor, Rembrandt (249 x 194mm.), [Cox and Ford 781] 7. Henry Taylor, hand to beard (257 x 202mm.), [Cox and Ford 783] 9. Miss [Hatty and Eleanor] Campbell’s group (315 x 255mm.), [Cox and Ford 187] 10. Mary Mother (320 x 264mm.), [Cox and Ford 101] 11. New Mary [Hillier] (314 x 240mm.), [unrecorded; cf. Cox and Ford 256] 12. Miss Spartali as Hypatia (310 x 256mm.), [Cox and Ford 469] 13. New Mary [Hillier] (330 x 243mm.), [Cox and Ford 256] 14. Miss D[uckworth] light on profile (342 x 262mm., oval), [Cox and Ford 311] (24. King David) 15. Friar Laurence (329 x 255mm.), [Cox and Ford 1089] 16. Miss D[uckworth] life size portrait (335 x 257mm.), (20. The Echo) (21. Madonna Purissima) [Cox and Ford 310] 17. The Mountain Nymph (355 x 258mm.), [Cox and Ford 335] 18. Life sized new pensive Mary [Hiller] (241 x 229mm.), [unrecorded; cf. Cox and Ford 256] 19. Miss [Hatty] Campbell profile (322 x 239mm.), [Cox and Ford 183] 20. The Echo (292 x 235mm.), [Cox and Ford 181] 21.
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