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'And Enid Sang'

Photograph
September 1874 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Cameron, Julia Margaret (photographer)
Place of origin
Isle of Wight (photographed)

In 1874 Alfred Tennyson, the Poet Laureate, invited Cameron to make photographic illustrations to Idylls of the King, his series of narrative poems based on the legends of King Arthur. After her large photographs were published as small, wood-cut copies, Cameron decided to produce an edition illustrated by original photographic prints accompanied by hand-written extracts from the poems printed in facsimile. She claimed to have made as many as 245 exposures to arrive at the 25 she finally published in two volumes in 1874 and 1875.


Object details

Categories
Photographs
Woman Artist
Woman Photographer
Object type
Photograph
Titles
  • 'And Enid Sang' (assigned by artist)
  • Idylls of the King, and other poems, vol. 1 (series title)
Materials and techniques
Albumen print from wet collodion glass negative
Photographic Paper
Albumen Process
Photography
Brief description
Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, "'And Enid Sang'" (sitter Emily Peacock), albumen print, September 1874
Physical description
A photograph of the head and shoulders of a woman (Emily Peacock) wearing two strands of pearls and holding a stringed instrument
Dimensions
  • Image height: 360mm
  • Image width: 280mm
  • Mount height: 430mm
  • Mount width: 330mm
Style
Victorian
Credit line
Given by Miss Agnes May Ffytche, 1927
Object history
Originally part of a bound folio volume containing 11 photographs by Cameron and 11 pages of verse text by Tennyson and 3 other text pages (two photographs are missing, the frontispiece image of Tennyson and the last image, 'The Passing of Arthur'). Volume 1 of two albums of illustrations to Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King and other Poems' published by Henry S. King & Co., 1874-75). Each photograph is mounted on bluish mounts with gilt borders.
Subjects depicted
Romantic Love
Woman
Peacock, Emily
Association
Alfred Tennyson
Literary reference'Illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and other poems', vol. 1, by Julia Margaret Cameron. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875.
Summary
In 1874 Alfred Tennyson, the Poet Laureate, invited Cameron to make photographic illustrations to Idylls of the King, his series of narrative poems based on the legends of King Arthur. After her large photographs were published as small, wood-cut copies, Cameron decided to produce an edition illustrated by original photographic prints accompanied by hand-written extracts from the poems printed in facsimile. She claimed to have made as many as 245 exposures to arrive at the 25 she finally published in two volumes in 1874 and 1875.
Associated object
83:1-1970 (text)
Bibliographic references
  • Ford, Colin and Cox, Julian. Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs. London: Thames and Hudson, 2003. Cat. no. 1161, p.472, ill.
  • Gernsheim, Helmut. Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Photographic Work. Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1975, p. 96.
  • Wolf, Sylvia (et al). Julia Margaret Cameron's Women. London: The Institute of Chicago and London: Yale University Press, 1998, p. 86.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
83-1970

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
Record URL
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