Elaine

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Elaine

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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
1875
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
British
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
858dd5e4-a87e-434c-a85d-770255e5628a

Portrait of Charles Hay Cameron, William Warder, Mrs. Hardinge, and an unidentified man and woman, in costume and posing as the characters from the accompanying Alfred, Lord Tennyson poems titled "Lancelot and Elaine". The body of Elaine lies on a bed surrounded by Merlin, King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot. King Arthur holds a letter in his hands and looks down to read it.

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