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

TITLE ON OBJECT: The May Queen
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
34.5 x 24.9 cm.
Museum purchase
GEH NEG: 28930
76:0024:0002

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gernsheim, Helmut. --Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Photographic Work.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1975. p. 95.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Acquisitions 1973-1980", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, June 12 - September 20, 1981.//
"Cameron: Her Work and Career", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, April 11 - May 25, 1986.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(signature and handwritten notations in ink by artist) "For I'm to be queen o' the May, Mother", "I'm to be queen o' the May", "From Life Registered Photograph Copy right Julia Margaret Cameron Freshwater Isle of W. 1874"

FRAME: cream mount, gold margin

NOTES: Cameron citation of registration and copyright. Copyright registered May 1, 1875, "A Photograph of the Queen of the May Study from Miss Emily Peacock in broad brimmed hat with glowing hair full face head slightly thrown back white dress one dress one hand holding her wreath of May flowers." Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84, updated by DZ, 7/86.

SUBJECTS:
allegory
portrait, female

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