Julia Margaret Cameron, Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895)
Severance Fund, 1984.165 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895)

1874

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Dimensions
36.4 × 27.6 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-192944

One of the renowned beauties of Victorian England, Jackson is seen in the two photographs to the left the year she married barrister Herbert Duckworth at age 21. He died three years later, leaving her with two children and a third on the way. She is seen here at age 28, a Victorian tragic heroine haunted by grief. Pale and hollow-eyed, although still lovely, she stands before a wall of ivy, an evergreen plant that signified eternity and fidelity. Four years later, Duckworth married biographer Sir Leslie Stephen with whom she had four children, including author Virginia Woolf and painter Vanes…

Provenance

Severance Fund, 1984.165

Registry history

  • 1874 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs

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