The photographs:
Idylls and Fancy Subjects
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
Friar Laurence and Juliet, 1864
albumen silver photograph
23.0 x 27.8 cm
The Wilson Centre for Photography
84:0247
The title refers to a pivotal scene in William Shakespeare's Romeo and
Juliet (act IV, scene I) where the young Juliet is handed a sleeping potion
that will cause her to appear dead.
Cameron took several versions of this
scene with Henry Taylor always posing as the friar, but with several
different women as Juliet. Here the tragic character of Juliet is played by
Mary Hillier.
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