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Photograph of La Contadina (Italian for 'peasant girl' or 'country-dweller') by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879). Cameron's photographic portraits are considered among the finest in the early history of photography. She set up a private studio at her Isle of Wight home at the age of 48, after her daughter gave her a camera, and she became expert at using the collodion wet-plate proces. She used friends, servants and neighbours as subjects, including the scientists John Herschel and Charles Darwin...

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Notes According to Clayton, this is one of a group of six prints of peasant girls in regional costume that Bunbury would have encountered on his grand tour. The plates were sold at the Bretherton sale of 1799, second day, lot 147, as 'A set of 6, girls of different countries', with 20 impressions.

A sweet cherry nose and extremely fine strawberry and raspberry fruit are reminiscent of a good Chambolle-Musigny, then full, fine and long with hints of cigar box. Taurasi is perhaps the top red denomination of the Italian South.

paperback, ISBN: 9781846110481, (1846110483), £7.50 Temporarily out of stock. You can order. Exact delivery date is unknown.

Glossa GCD922511 : Graciella Oddone / Lorenzo Regazzo / Ensemble Arcadia / Attilio Cremonesi / Johann Adolf Hasse / Michele Mascitti / La Contadina (Johann Adolph HASSE). Concerto in G major opus 7 Number 6 (Michele MASCITTI). /