21st Nov, 2025 17:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2025

 
  Lot 2
 

JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815–1879)
Thomas Carlyle, London 1867

Estimate
€1,400 - €1,600
Current bid
€800
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Lot details

Start price: € 800

Estimate: € 1,400–1,600

English:

Photogravure, printed in 1913 for "Camera Work 41" on Japanese paper 28 x 20 cm, mounted on original page 29.5 x 20.9 cm, in excellent condition. LITERATURE Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work, The Complete Illustrations 1903–1917, Cologne 1997, p. 684.

Cameron long wished to photograph the brilliant historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) and ultimately took her camera to London to do so. The resulting photograph she considered as a successful record of Carlyle's inner greatness as well as his features. Carlyle, on the other hand, wrote of it to Cameron: "Terrifically ugly and woe-begone, but has something of likeness: my candid opinion".

Deutsch:

Photogravüre, geprintet 1913 für "Camera Work 41" auf Japanpapier 28 x 20 cm, montiert auf der Originalseite der Zeitschrift 29,5 x 20,9 cm, in ausgezeichnetem Zustand. LITERATUR Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work, The Complete Illustrations 1903–1917, Köln 1997, S. 684.

Cameron hatte schon länger den Wunsch, den brillanten Historiker und Philosophen Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) zu porträtieren und kam dafür schließlich mit ihrer Kamera nach London. Im Ergebnis sah sie eine gelungene Wiedergabe der inneren Größe wie der äußeren Erscheinung Carlyles. Dieser kommentierte Camerons Aufnahme folgendermaßen: "Das Porträt zeigt mich schrecklich hässlich und von Gram gezeichnet, ist mir aber in der Direktheit (der Wiedergabe) auch sehr ähnlich".

Image Size: 19.8 x 15.5 cm

 

Auction: OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2025, 21st Nov, 2025

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