LOT 133 PRE-RAPHAELITE BEAUTY,
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PRE-RAPHAELITE BEAUTY, a rare and early albumen photographic print 1857/8, by James Mudd or Joseph Cundall, of Mary Louisa Fisher and Julia Prinsep Stephen (both née Jackson), together with another albumen photographic print of Julia Prinsep Stephen, mid-1860s, photographer unknown, possibly Julia Margaret Cameron, 197 x 149mm and 195 x 154mm (2) The first photograph shows an 11-year-old Julia (Jackson) Prinsep Stephen (on the right) with her sister Mary Louis Fisher (on the left). Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson: 7 February 1846-5 May 1895) was a celebrated Englishwoman, noted for her beauty as a Pre-Raphaelite model and philanthropist. She was the wife of the biographer Leslie Stephen and mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, members of the Bloomsbury Group. An identical, but smaller print to this, was part of the famous ‘Signor 1857’ photograph album that Julia Margaret Cameron composed as inspiration, before endeavouring in the art of photography herself. The album of 35 photographs was sold at Sotheby’s on December 12 2012 for £121,000. Condition report: the first print is in excellent condition with just a few old creases, the second photograph has a number of losses along with small tears and a pin hole to the middle top, both have pencil numbers to reverse 2 on the first and 5 on the second
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