Ellen Terry at Age Sixteen

Title: Ellen Terry at Age Sixteen
Description: "This contemplative portrait of Ellen Terry shows as a new bride during the Shakespearean actress's honeymoon stay at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight, where Cameron lived. Terry had married the portrait painter George Frederick Watts.

Terry's forlorn expression and nervous gesture may be an actress's performance put on for the camera.

Employing a non-fading print process used for commercially distributed pictures, Cameron's printer made multiple carbon prints available for purchase by Terry's and Cameron's fans."
Identifier: JMC10
Creator: Cameron, Julia Margaret
Date: Negative creation: 1864; Print creation: 1875
Subject: Portrait of actress Ellen Terry
Type: Photograph
Medium: carbon prints
Format: Dimensions: 24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.)
Contributor: The J. Paul Getty Museum; http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/58960/julia-margaret-cameron-ellen-terry-at-age-sixteen-british-negative-1864-print-about-1875/
Rights: This work is in the public domain