Beatrice Cenci

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Photograph entitled 'Beatrice Cenci' takne by Julia Margaret Cameron in about 1870. Carbon print.

This photographic portrait of Mary Emily 'May' Prinsep (1853-1931) is a carbon print made by the Autotype Company from an original negative taken by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) in about 1870. Cameron had approximately seventy of her negatives printed as permanent carbon prints by the Autotype Company as she was worried about the longevity of albumen prints. Beatrice Cenci, a character from Percy Bysshe Shelley's (1792-1822) play 'The Cenci' (1819), was a young woman convicted of patricide and hanged in 1599. Shelley's play was based on a murder which took place in Rome in the late sixteenth century.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1939-113/3
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 312 mm x 236 mm
type:
carbon print and photograph
credit:
Perrin, H.