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Description: | This albumen print forms part of the Herschel Album, created by Cameron for her friend Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). An albumen print photograph entitled 'Beatrice', taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1866. The model for the photograph is Mary Emily Prinsep (1853-1931). The photograph portrays Beatrice Cenci, a character in Percy Bysshe Shelley's (1792-1822) play 'The Cenci' (1819). The play was based on the true story of Beatrice Cenci, a sixteenth century Italian woman who plotted the death of her tyrannical father who abused her. She was caught and executed in 1599. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | albumen print photograph | Temporal: | 1866 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Cameron, Julia Margaret (1815-1879) | Identifier: | 1984-5017/83 | Go to resource |
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