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After her large photographs were published as small, wood-cut copies, Cameron decided to produce an edition illustrated by original photographic prints accompanied by hand-written extracts from the poems printed in facsimile. She claimed to have made as many as 245 exposures to arrive at the 25 she finally published in two volumes in 1874 and 1875.\n\nThe sorceress Vivien, played by Agnes Mangles, casts a spell over the wizard Merlin, played by Cameron’s husband Charles. Mangles later wrote that Charles could not stop chuckling during the theatrically posed sitting, thus spoiling many negatives. 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Volume 1 of two albums of illustrations to Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King and other Poems' published by Henry S. King & Co., 1874-75).  Each photograph is mounted on bluish mounts with gilt borders.\n\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 'Vivien and Merlin' (sitters Agnes Mangles, Charles Hay Cameron), albumen print, 1874","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Cox, Julian and Colin Ford, with contributions by Joanne Lukitsh and Philippa Wright. <u>Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs</u>. London: Thames &amp; Hudson, in association with The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, 2003. 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King & Co., 1875."],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Cameron produced two volumes of illustrations to Idylls of the King, Alfred Tennyson’s cycle of narrative poems based on the legends of King Arthur. Here the sorceress Vivien, played by Agnes Mangles, casts a spell over the wizard Merlin, enacted by Cameron’s husband Charles. Mangles later wrote that Charles could not stop chuckling during the theatrically posed sitting, thus spoiling many negatives.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}},{"text":"\r\nCameron illustrated Tennyson's Idylls of the King, at the poet's request, for a twelve volume trade edition of his work. Her large photographs were published as wood-cut copies, much-reduced in size, and she decided to produce an edition illustrated by original photographic prints like this one, faced with hand-written extracts from the Idylls printed in  facsimile. The relevant text is also exhibited here:\r\n For Merlin overtalk'd and overworn \r\n Had yielded, told her all the charm and slept.  And lost to life and use\r\n Then in the moment, she put forth the charm\r\n Of woven paces and of waving hands\r\n And in the hollow oak he lay as dead,  \r\n And lost to life and use, and name and fame.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}},{"text":"<i>Julia Margaret Cameron:  A Bicentenary Exhibition</i>\n\n<i><b>Vivien and Merlin</b></i>\r\nFrom <i>Idylls of the King and Other Poems</i>, Volume I\r\n1874\r\n\r\nThe sorceress Vivien, played by Agnes Mangles, casts a spell over the wizard Merlin, played by Cameron’s husband Charles. Mangles later wrote that Charles could not stop chuckling during the theatrically posed sitting, thus spoiling many negatives. \r\n\r\nGiven by Mrs Agnes May Ffytche, 1927\r\nMuseum nos. 81 to 91-1970\r\n","date":{"text":"18 November 2014 – 25 September 2016","earliest":"2014-11-18","latest":"2016-09-25"}}],"partNumbers":["85-1970"],"accessionNumberNum":"85","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1970,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-07","recordCreationDate":"1999-12-15","availableToBook":false}}