An albumen silver print titled "Vivien and Merlin," by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874, a staged photographic illustration of the Arthurian legend of Vivien beguiling the wizard Merlin, subject matter Cameron drew from Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 52.524.3.5, Photographs department, David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952.
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Source Vivien and Merlin, accession 52.524.3.5 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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The Met's own title for this photograph names the subject outright, "Vivien and Merlin," Cameron's own staged illustration of the Arthurian legend, a direct identification rather than a bare tag.
Source Vivien and Merlin, accession 52.524.3.5 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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An albumen silver print titled "Vivien and Merlin," by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874, a staged photographic illustration of the Arthurian legend of Vivien beguiling the wizard Merlin, subject matter Cameron drew from Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
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