Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and other Poems
Medium
Albumen silver prints
Dimensions
45.4 x 35.5 x 2.4 cm (17 7/8 x 14 x 15/16 in.), closed
Classification
Books
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952
Accession Number
52.524.3.1–.12
Tags
PoetryMenWomen
About the Artist
Julia Margaret Cameron · 1815–1879
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879), born Julia Margaret Pattle in Calcutta, India, emerged as one of the 19th century's most innovative photographers despite beginning her career at age 48. The daughter of East India Company official James Pattle and French aristocrat Adeline de l'Etang, she was educated in France from 1818 to 1834 alongside her six surviving sisters, renowned for their beauty and...