Elaine "the Lily-maid of Astolat"

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Elaine "the Lily-maid of Astolat"

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Julia Margaret Cameron

British Photographer · 1815–1879

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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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Date
1874
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
British
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
65ed36a4-d154-4fc2-a337-dac6d9339f46

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 one arm extended out in front of her, and her head tilted slightly back. Her long hair hangs down her back.

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