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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Elaine
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
33.3 x 26.1 cm.
Museum purchase
GEH NEG: 19751
74:0087:0007

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.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(signature and handwritten notations in ink) title, "So in her tower alone the maiden sat His very shield was gone, only the case Her own poor work-her empty labor left", "From Life Registered Photograph Copy right 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 illustration of Elaine study from May Prinsep seated side face looking down with embroidery on lap" Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84.

SUBJECTS:
allegory
portrait, female

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