The search for new beauty 1860s

Julia Margaret Cameron - 'Call, I follow, I follow, let me die!'

'Call, I follow, I follow, let me die!' Julia Margaret Cameron London 1867 Carbon print from copy negative Museum no. 15-1939 Given by Mrs Perrin

Julia Margaret Cameron - 'Call, I follow, I follow, let me die!'

This unconventional portrait shows Cameron's parlour maid, Mary Hillier, as the tragic heroine of Arthurian legend. Its title comes from Tennyson's poem Idylls of the King.