CAMERON (JULIA MARGARET)


"The Beauty of Holiness" [Freddy Gould], albumen print, mounted on card, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED "From life. Julia Margaret Cameron" beneath image, foxing to mount [Cox & Ford 884], image diameter 188mm., mount 308 x 208mm., [1866]
|A portrait roundel of Freddy Gould, the son of a local Isle of Wight fisherman, one of a pioneering series of twelve child studies taken in the first half of 1866, in which Cameron "systematically investigated the possibilities of sculptural lighting effects. The photographs combine direct, head-on poses with soft suggestive form... rather than portraits per se, they are representations of an idea, of the concept of idealized beauty and animate inner life" (Cox & Ford).