{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O191694"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O191694/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2008BU5264/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2008BU5264/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2008BU5264","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O191694/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O191694","accessionNumber":"E.2752-1990","objectType":"Photograph","titles":[{"title":"The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty","type":"assigned by artist"}],"summaryDescription":"In late 1865 Julia Margaret Cameron began using a larger camera, which held a 15 x 12-inch glass negative. Early the next year she wrote to Henry Cole with great enthusiasm – but little modesty – about the new turn she had taken in her work. \r\n\r\nCameron initiated a series of large-scale, close-up heads. These fulfilled her photographic vision, a rejection of ‘mere conventional topographic photography – map-making and skeleton rendering of feature and form’ in favour of a less precise but more emotionally penetrating form of portraiture. Cameron also continued to make narrative and allegorical tableaux, which were larger and bolder than her previous efforts. \r\n","physicalDescription":"A photograph of a woman (Mrs. Keene) from the shoulders up with loose hair and looking straight ahead.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Julia Margaret Cameron","id":"C5001"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"J.B. Obernetter","id":"AUTH321895"},"association":{"text":"printer","id":"x30811"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"collotype","id":"AAT53204"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Collotype","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"}],"styles":[{"text":"Victorian","id":"AAT21232"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2008BU5264"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"X","shelf":"311","box":"K"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Germany","id":"x28873"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"x46159"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"June 1866","earliest":"1866-06-01","latest":"1866-06-30"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":"assigned by Cox and Ford"},{"date":{"text":"c. 1884","earliest":"1879-01-01","latest":"1888-12-31"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"x46159"},"note":"The date 'before 1884' is based on the fact that the J.B. Obernetter company became Emile Obernetter after his son took over in 1884."}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Nevinson Bequest, 1990","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"29.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"22.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from <u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990</u>","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Nevinson Bequest, 1990\n\nOne of a series of 8 photographs probably printed by J.B. Obernetter and Co., Munich, before 1884 [see stamp on E.2746-1990]\n\nInscribed on another print of the same image (whereabouts unknown): 'Come and trip it as you go,/On the light fantastic toe,/And in thy right hand lead with thee/The mountain nymph, Sweet Liberty'/John Milton, 'L'Allegro' 1632 / 'And Freedom rear'd in that august sunrise/ Her beautiful bold brow'./ Alfred Tennyson, 'The Poet', Poems.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 'The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty' (sitter Mrs. Keene), collotype, 1866, printed later probably before 1884","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Series: Mike Weaver, Julia Margaret Cameron, University of Southampton and The Herbert Press, 1984"},{"reference":{"text":"Cox, Julian and Colin Ford, with contributions by Joanne Lukitsh and Philippa Wright. <u>Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs</u>. London: Thames &amp; Hudson, in association with The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, 2003. ISBN: 0-500-54265-1","id":"AUTH321348"},"details":"Cat. no. 335, p. 226.","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990</u>"}],"production":"As the inscription visible on E.2746-1990 and E.2749-1990 indicate, this collotype was made from internegatives (negatives made from rephotographing prints)","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[{"text":"John Milton","id":"N2295"}],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":["John Milton, 'L'Allegro', 1632"],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.2752-1990"],"accessionNumberNum":"2752","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1990,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-07","recordCreationDate":"2009-02-23","availableToBook":false}}