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The Little Novice and the Queen Guinevere in the Holy House at Almesbury
Creator
Julia Margaret CameronBritish Photographer · 1815–1879
All works by this person →After receiving a camera as a gift, Julia Margaret Cameron began her career in photography at the age of forty-eight. She produced the majority of her work from her home at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight. By the coercive force of her eccentric personality, she enlisted everyone around her as models, from family members to domestic servants and local residents. The wife of a retired jurist, Camero
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- 1874
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 97ba7b93-8515-4ecc-ab3e-c79744038950
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Portrait of Alice Keown and Mrs. Hardinge in costume and posing as the novice and Queen Guinevere from the accompanying Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem titled "Guinevere". The novice wears a light-colored habit and sits facing Guinevere with her hands folded together in her lap. Guinevere sits in profile with her eyes turned down. Her long hair hangs over her shoulders and peeks out from under the dark veil that covers her head.
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