The photographs:
Famous Men and Fair Women
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
Portrait of Henry Taylor, 1864
albumen silver photograph
21.0 x 26.5cm
The Wilson Centre for Photography
98:6036
Sir Henry Taylor (1800–86) was a poet and civil servant. His literary
achievements were greatly admired in the mid-Victorian period. His book of
poems Philip Van Artevelde (1834), written in blank verse, was compared to
Shakespeare's dramas. He was one of Julia Margaret Cameron's closest friends
and as her most photographed male subject he appears in several other guises
in this exhibition.
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