The photographs:
Famous Men and Fair Women
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
The sisters, c. 1870
albumen silver photograph
25.3 x 36.5cm
The Wilson Centre for Photography
93:4854
The sisters in this photograph are Emily and Mary Peacock who visited the
Isle of Wight in the early 1870s. Cameron seems to have been entranced by
Emily Peacock as she appears in many other photographs taken during a
relatively short period. She is also the model for five photographs that
appear in Cameron's illustrations for Alfred, Lord Tennyson's book Idylls of
the King and Other Poems.
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