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Julia Margaret Cameron


Julia Margaret Cameron
My Favorite Picture of All My Works.
My Niece Julia
April 1867


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Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 – 1879)
J.F.W. Herschel
1867

source: http://www.masters-of-photography.com/C/cameron/cameron_herschel_full.html



Pomona 1872




The Rosebud Garden 1868




Pre-Raphaelite study 1870



Queen Esther before King Ahasuerus 1865



source: http://www.victoriaspast.com/JuiliaMCameron/juliacameron.htm


Rossetti, Beata Beatrice, 1863, Tate Gallery


Rossetti, Boca Bacciata, 1859




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