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1862

Artists

Mary Georgiana Caroline Cecil FilmerArtist

Classification

Photographs

Technique

Albumen silver print

Medium

Leather bound album with metal clasp and blue silk endpapers, albumen silver prints, watercolor, gold paint, brown ink, and graphite

Culture

British

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Photographs

Dimensions

actual: 30.5 x 24.9 cm (12 x 9 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, New York, purchased from Christie's, 1978, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1982. on Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1978 to 1982

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Untitled (five photographs, top, Witley Court; oval in center, Rosa; bottom left, Sally; center, Mama and Bunnie; bottom right, Foxie)

Mary Georgiana Caroline Cecil Filmer, 1862-1888

Album page with five albumen silver prints decorated with gold and lavender colored paints. Gold paint is in a chain design surrounding the photograph of Witley Court surmounted by a coronet. The lavender paint frames the other four photographs and connects the four photographs with a decorative branching motif.

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