Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) THOMAS CARLYLE, 1867. Photogravure on Japanese tissue, published as Plate 1 in Camera Work no.41, 1913, image size 212 x 160mm, sheet size 277 x 200mm, with original backing page (loose). Alfred Stieglitz included five works by British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron in the 41st issue of his pioneering Photo-Secessionist journal Camera Work. Cameron, who died in 1879, was regarded by the Photo-Secessionists as "one of photography's few 'classics'." (Camera Work, no.41, 1913, p.41). The issue included five of Cameron's images, including two of historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle, one of Sir John Herschel, one of violinist Joseph Joachim, and her portrait of actress Ellen Terry at the age of sixteen. A note on the printmaking of Cameron's images was included in the editorial text, reading, "The gravure plates of the five Camerons were made by the Autotype Fine Arts Company, London, directly from the original collodion negatives which average about ten by twelve inches in size. The makers of the gravures are the owners of the original negatives." (p.42) With a hint of modesty, the editorial text also makes note of the origin of Stieglitz's own plates, which followed Cameron's, reading "The Stieglitz Plates call for no special comment." Literature: Cox, Ford, Lukitsh, Wright. Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs. London: Thames & Hudson in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the National Museum of Photography, Film & Televison, Bradford, 2003, no.629. Roberts, P. Alfred Stieglitz: Camera Work: The Complete Illustrations 1903 - 1917. Cologne: Taschen, 1997, p.683.