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Cameron, Julia Margaret
English (b. India, 1815-1879)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Elaine, the Lily Maid of Astolat
BOOK TITLE: --Julia Margaret Cameron's Illustrations to Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" and Other Poems.-- London: 1875.

(1874)
PUBLISHER: Henry S. King & Company
albumen print
34.2 x 27.8 cm.
Museum purchase
GEH NEG: 19748
74:0087:0006

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Millard, Charles W. "Julia Margaret Cameron and Tennyson's "Idylls of the King".", --Harvard Library Bulletin--, Vol. 21, no. 2, 1973 April. p. 187-201.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Cameron: Her Work and Career", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, April 11 - May 25, 1986.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(signature and handwritten notations in ink) title, "From Life Registered Photograph Copyright Julia Margaret Cameron"

FRAME: cream mount, gold margin

NOTES: Auction: Sotheby's Belgravia, December 4, 1973, lot #68. Cameron citation of registration and copyright. Copyright registration December 8, 1874, "A Photograph second illustrating Idyll Elaine study from May Prinsep now Hitchens seated looking up side face with shield before her & embroidery on lap." Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84.

SUBJECTS:
allegory
portrait, female

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