CARROLL LEWIS (1832 1898) Margaret Anne and Lilian Brodie

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CARROLL, LEWIS (1832-1898)
Margaret Anne and Lilian Brodie. Arched-topped albumen print, 5 1/2x4 1/2 inches (14x11.4 cm.); on a period mount. 1860

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The sitters, Margaret Anne Brodie (b. 1850) and Lilian Brodie (1853-1916), were the eldest and third daughters of Oxford professor Benjamin Brodie (1817-1880), Aldrichian professor 1855-1973, and Waynflete professor of chemistry 1865-1972, and his wife, Philothea Margaret née Thompson (d. 1882).
Another print of this image is housed at the Princeton University Art Museum, and is signed by the children.

Lewis Carroll, Photographer (2002).

Lewis Carroll, (Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), a prominent English author of the novels "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass," was also an Anglican clergyman, logician, mathematician, inventor and photographer. Carroll received camera equipment from his uncle in 1856, and began to explore photography, focusing predominately on portraiture of young girls. The majority of his surviving images depict the daughters of academics, royalty and aristocrats. Often these photographs of children were used as illustrations in his literary works.
After a small exhibition at the Photographic Society of London, eager parents presented their children, who were often photographed with props. Carroll abruptly ceased making photographs in 1880. Controversy about Carroll's work exists to this day, most notably his friendships with girls. However, his images remain a reflection of the Victorian era, when children were viewed as innocent, beautiful, and untainted by civilization.