"Idylls of the King", Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)

So now I think my time is near – I trust it is – I know, the blessed Music went that way my soul will have to go.

King Ahasuerus and Queen Esther in Apocrypha.

Elaine on her death bed. And reverently they bore her into the Hall.

The Parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere.

The Little Novice with the Queen Guinevere in the Holy House at Almesbury.

Books

Julia Margaret Cameron

(Phaidon, 2006)

Julia Margaret Cameron

(MACK BOOKS, 2015)

Julia Margaret Cameron: Arresting Beauty

(Thames & Hudson, 2023)

Julia Margaret Cameron

(Phaidon, 2001)

Julia Margaret Cameron 1815-1879

(A & C Black, 1984)

Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs

(Oxford University Press, 2003)

Julia Margaret Cameron: A Poetry of Photography

(Oxford University Press, 1970)

Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In

(National Portrait Gallery, 1970)

In Focus: Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

(J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996)

Julia Margaret Cameron, Capturer la beauté

(Silvana, 1970)

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