Julia My Niece', 1867

Photograph entitled 'Julia My Niece' taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in April 1867. Albumen contact print from wet collodion negative. This photographic portrait of Julia Jackson (1846-1895 ) forms part of the Herschel Album, created by Cameron for her friend Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). Julia Jackson married the barrister Herbert Duckworth who died in 1870. She then married Sir Leslie Stephen the editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. They had four children, including the artist Vanessa Bell and author Virginia Woolf.