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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Sir Galahad and the Nun
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
35.0 x 27.5 cm.
Museum purchase
GEH NEG: 19752
74:0087:0008

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, "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 illustrating the Holy Grail (of) Mary Hillier as Nun and Mr Coxhead as Sir Galahad figure with helmut & cross on breast" Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84.

SUBJECTS:
allegory
portrait, female

dress, armor
dress, religious

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