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The photographs:
Famous Men and Fair Women
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty, 1866
albumen silver photograph
28.0 x 36.3cm
The Wilson Centre for Photography
93:4917
Cameron's treatment of this subject is un-complicated and direct, the
model's head is fully frontal and seems to radiate out of the dark
background. In contrast, her eyes suggest that something is not being
revealed. Sir John Herschel, who praised the photograph, described the
model's expression as 'wild' and 'startled'. The title of this photograph is
a stanza from a John Milton's poem L'Allegro, (1632).
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