JULIA MARGARET CAMERON

Dejátch Alámáyou, King Theodore's Son, 1868

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JULIA MARGARET CAMERON
Dejátch Alámáyou, King Theodore's Son, 1868
Albumen print, 10.7/8 x 9.7/8 in., mounted on card, signed, titled and inscribed From Life Registered Photograph copyright, in ink on mount with blindstamp Registered Photograph

Literature

Powell, Victorian Photographs of Famous Men & Fair Women, p. 32 and pl. 41

Lot Essay

Queen Victoria invited Prince Alamayu to stay at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight after the death of his father, King Theodore of
Abyssinia. It was here that he was introduced to Tennyson, through whom Julia Margaret Cameron arranged to photograph him.

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