Photograph of two Ceylonese women with water jars by Julia Margaret Cameron, ca.1870.

Featured on PDR in the essay Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon: Idylls of Freshwater vs. Idylls of Rathoongodde

Leaving her close-knit artistic community on the Isle of Wight at the age of sixty to join her husband on the coffee plantations of Ceylon was not an easy move for the celebrated British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Eugenia Herbert explores the story behind the move and how the new environment was to impact Cameron's art.

Two Ceylonese Women with Water Jars

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ca. 1870


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Public Domain Worldwide

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