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Description: | A photographic portrait of Mary Ann Hillier (1847-1936), taken by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), in 1870. Hillier was Cameron's personal maid from 1861 to 1875. After the Resurrection, God sent an angel to the empty tomb to announce that Christ had risen from the dead. Julia Margaret Cameron is one of the most significant figures in nineteenth century photography. Born in Calcutta, she moved to Britain where she lived at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. In 1863, aged forty-eight, she was given a camera by her daughter as a gift. From then on she took portraits of her family, friends and servants, as well as many eminent Victorians. Cameron was strongly influenced by classical art and many of her portraits are pictorial allegories based on religious or literary themes. In 1875 Cameron moved to Sri Lanka (Ceylon), where she died. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | albumen print photograph | Temporal: | 1870 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Cameron, Julia Margaret (1815-1879) | Identifier: | 2003-5001/2/20555 | Go to resource |
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