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Julia Margaret Cameron 
Sir Galahad and the Pale Nun 
[Idylls of the King] 
1874 
  
Albumen silver print, from glass negative 
33.2 x 27.5 cm (13 1/16 x 10 13/16 in. ) 
  
Metropolitan Museum of Art 
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952, Accession Number:52.524.3.8 
  
 
LL/77584 
  
Curatorial description (Accessed: 21 Sept 2017)
In 1874 Tennyson asked Cameron to make photographic illustrations for a new edition of his Idylls of the King, a recasting of the Arthurian legends. Responding that both knew that “it is immortality to me to be bound up with you,” Cameron willingly accepted the assignment. Costuming family and friends, she made some 245 exposures to arrive at the handful she wanted for the book. Ultimately—and predictably—she was unhappy with the way her photographs looked reduced in scale and translated into wood engravings, and she chose to issue a deluxe edition, at her own risk, that included a dozen full size photographic prints in each of two volumes. 
 

 
  
 
  
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