Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895) (1874): Art, History and Details

Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895) (1874) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Julia Margaret Cameron (British, 1815–1879).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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 Vanessa Bell. Julia Jackson Duckworth Stephen died of rheumatic fever in 1895 at age 49.

Object facts

• Title: Julia Jackson Duckworth (1846-1895)
• Date: 1874
• Creator attribution: Julia Margaret Cameron (British, 1815–1879)
• Culture: England, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative
• Dimensions: Image: 36.4 x 27.6 cm (14 5/16 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
• Collection: Photography
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1984.165

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1984." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163-207.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.

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