Sunday, October 25, 2009

Julia Margaret Cameron's Photograph of Alice Liddell as Alethea

Alice Liddell as Alethea, 1872
Julia Margaret Cameron
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/cameron/975637phfa.shtml

This was shown as Lot 56 from the 2001 Sotheby's auction, Lewis Carroll's Alice: The Photographs, Books, Papers and Personal Effects of Alice Liddell and Her Family ...
http://browse.sothebys.com/?&cat=1&event_id=21625&g=1&i=1&sale_id=L01912&is_past=1
(The catalogue lists it as, "Alice cast as Pomona, Roman divinity of the trees" - instead of Alethea)
Lot 57 - King Lear and His Three Daughters
Lot 58 - Letter from Sir Henry Taylor, about Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs of the Liddell sisters

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