Apr 27, 2023 - Sale 2634

Sale 2634 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815-1879)
From Life [Mary Ryan]. Albumen print, the image measuring 10 3/4x9 1/4 inches (27.3x23.5 cm.), the mount 15x11 1/4 inches (38.1x28.6 cm.), with Cameron's signature and notation "From Life" in ink on mount recto. 1872

Mary Ryan (1848-1914), daughter of James and Anne Ryan, left Limerick, Ireland, during the potato famine. Seeing Mary begging in Putney, Cameron employed her as a maid in London and Freshwater. While acting as saleswoman at Cameron's first London exhibition (at Colnaghi), Mary was admired by Henry Cotton (q.v.), who wooed and married her.
Cox & Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs (The J. Paul Getty Museum), p. 518, Appendix E "Sitters"
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