December’s version of the The Burlington Magazine focuses on the art of Photography. As ordinary, there are numerous fascinating pieces to be found, including articles on on the museum photographer Isabel Agnes Cowper, Maria Ponti Pasolini’s photographic archive, Nicéphore Niépce and the industry of photographic replication and Ilse Bing at Glyndebourne. To mark this tercentenary, in autumn 2021, the Gemäldegalerie is gathering together Art Museum virtually the entire assortment of Therbusch works within the holdings of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in a focussed particular exhibition centred around this main work.

It turned out to be an unrecorded photograph of Ellen Terry by the Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron . Furthermore, it reveals Terry in her marriage ceremony gown which was designed by William Holman Hunt. The photograph is, I consider Music, linked to George Frederic Watt’s 1864 painting of Terry known as Choosing, which exhibits her in the …