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Elaine
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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- September 1874
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 17957f35-ec24-42ee-b116-ffad678bea3d
What the image shows
A woman in a light dress and gloves is seated at a table with ornate carvings.
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From the Getty Museum record
Portrait of May Prinsep in costume and posing as Elaine from the accompanying Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem titled "Lancelot and Elaine". She sits in profile with her head tilted back slightly and her hands resting on an embroidered cloth draped over her lap. Her long hair hangs down her back.
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