Imperial Eleanore

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Imperial Eleanore

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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: 1867
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: British
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Portrait of Marie Spartali in costume and posing as Eleänore, the title character from the poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. She holds a closed fan in one hand and a small pendant necklace pinched between the thumb and forefinger of the other.

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