Currently not on view
Maud,
1875, printed later
Julia Margaret Cameron, British, 1815–1879
2010-178
The poet Lord Alfred Tennyson and Cameron were friends, neighbors, and collaborators, and in 1874 they produced an illustrated version of Idylls of the King, a collection of Tennyson’s blank verse poems. For the edition, Cameron’s negatives were printed as small, unsatisfactory wood engravings, leading her to produce her own album of large-scale photographs the next year. Her painterly tableaus of elaborately costumed models included this photograph of her frequent subject Mary Hillier as the titular character in Tennyson’s “Maud” (1855), a tragic pastoral romance that invites its heroine to “come into the garden.” The original albumen silver print was accompanied by lithographed lines by Tennyson written in Cameron’s looping script, representing a fascinating interaction of photographic illustration and poetic text.
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Title
Maud
Dates
1875, printed later
Maker
Medium
Carbon print
Dimensions
32.2 × 26.2 cm (12 11/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
mount: 35.6 x 29 cm. (14 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Clarence H. White Collection, assembled and organized by Professor Clarence H. White Jr., and given in memory of Lewis F. White, Dr. Maynard P. White Sr., and Clarence H. White Jr., the sons of Clarence H. White Sr. and Jane Felix White
Object Number
2010-178
Place Made
Europe, England, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
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