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"So like a shatter'd Column lay the King" (Verso (.11))

Julia Margaret Cameron

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

Portrait of Mary Hillier, William Warder, Mrs. Hardinge, an unidentified woman, and two hooded figures in costume and posing as the characters from the accompanying Alfred, Lord Tennyson poems titled "The Passing of Arthur". Two of the women, Vivien and Morgan le Fay, place a dying King Arthur in a wooden boat to take him to Avalon. His head rests in the lap of one of the women, who sits at the bow as the other positions his body in the boat. A third woman stands at the stern and looks down into the water. Two hooded figures stand on the shore behind them.

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  • Title: "So like a shatter'd Column lay the King" (Verso (.11))
  • Creator: Julia Margaret Cameron
  • Date Created: 1875
  • Location Created: Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England
  • Physical Dimensions: 35 × 27.6 cm (13 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
  • Type: Print
  • External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
  • Medium: Albumen silver print
  • Terms of Use: Open Content
  • Number: 84.XO.732.1.2.11
  • Culture: British
  • Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  • Creator Display Name: Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879)
  • Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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