'The Wild Flower', 1867
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Photograph entitled 'The Wild Flower' taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1867. Albumen contact print from wet collodion negative. This photographic study of Mary Ryan (1848-1914) forms part of the Herschel Album, created by Cameron for her friend Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). The title of this photograph probably refers to a line from William Blake's poem 'Auguries of Innocence': 'To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower'.
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- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1984-5017/78
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
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overall: 276 mm x 230 mm
- type:
- photograph and albumen print
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
- credit:
- Sotheby's
