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Queen Guinevere (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Julia Margaret Cameron)

Albumen silver print, 1874, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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An 1874 albumen silver print by the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, staged as an illustration to Tennyson's Idylls of the King and titled "Queen Guinevere" by the artist. Cameron posed her sitters and costumed them to evoke the Arthurian court, part of a series of photographic illustrations she made for an 1875 edition of Tennyson's poem cycle. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Guinevere, Figures

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own title for this Julia Margaret Cameron photograph, "Queen Guinevere," names the subject outright.

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Queen Guinevere, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Julia Margaret Cameron)
Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of Art 52.524.3.9View the Source
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