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"For I'm to be Queen of the May, Mother, I'm to be Queen of the May"
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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- May 1, 1875
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- fbbd480b-4a65-40cc-9350-3aacdca12eef
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Portrait of Emily Peacock in costume and posing as the protagonist from the accompanying Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem titled "The May Queen". She holds a crown of flowers up to her chest and looks past the camera with her head slightly tilted to one side. Her long hair, covered by a brimmed hat, hangs down over her shoulders.
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