Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight
- PART OF:
- Collection of 19 photographs
- Made:
- Isle of Wight
Photograph of Dimbola Lodge, home of Julia Margaret Cameron, inscription in pencil on verso reads 'Freshwater Bay Isle of Wight 1871'.
In 1860 Julia Margaret Cameron bought two adjacent cottages in Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight. She named it Dimbola Lodge after her family's tea plantation Dimbula in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). Cameron lived at Dimbola with her children and husband between 1860 - 1875.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1995-5035/17
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- type:
- photograph
- credit:
- The National Media Museum, Bradford
