NPG P125 (4a/4b/4c/4d)
| Selected Letters | Letter from G.F. Watts to J.M. Cameron, dated 19 October 1872, giving an assessment of her recent photographs and advice on how to improve. |
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Oct. 19. 1872
My dear Mrs Cameron, I have jotted down agreeably to your wishes some remarks against each Photo, of course no attempt at a critical lecture, all the specimens are as a rule good, cleaner, sharper, more even in tone, & better in composition in as much as the lines are less broken, but composition requires study. There are a few |
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rules to be laid down, but they will not carry you far. I should advise you to get some Photographs from prints after the greatest masters. I think the Cupid the most beautiful Thing you have done at all. The head is blurred which is a pity, & the feet come together in a manner that suggests a cloven foot! but the last might have been easily modified by throwing some shadow |
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on the farther foot, also the wing on the farther side would have been much better for a shadow, but the thing is to me extremely beautiful & suggestive of colour, with a thousand thanks I shall return the Photos in the first place I cannot think of taking so much property, & in the second I really have not any place for such large prints, I shall keep one of each the chidrens' picture & the Cupid & Alathea. I should like to have another copy of no 2 of the children |
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all of these I must pay for
Yours (illegible)
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