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The photographs:
Idylls and Fancy Subjects
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
The Whisper of the Muse, 1865
albumen silver photograph
23.8 x 32.5 cm
The Wilson Centre for Photography
97:5722
The central figure in this photograph is the well-known painter G. F.
Watts, who was the artist-in-residence at Little Holland House and a close
friend and advisor to Cameron. Two children from Cameron's hometown of
Freshwater are posed as Muses beside him, Freddy Gould is on the left, and
Lizzie Keown is on the right. Watts is shown communing with the Muses who
offer creativity and inspire the highest forms of art - philosophy, poetry,
literature and music.
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