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Cassiopea
- Made:
- 1866
- photographer:
- Julia Margaret Cameron
!['Cassiopea', 1866
A photographic portrait of Mrs Keene](https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/147/147/small_thumbnail_a000757b.jpg)
![Cassiopea (albumen print)](https://coimages.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/68/78/small_thumbnail_b640125.jpg)
A photographic portrait of Mrs Keene, entitled 'Cassiopea', taken by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) in 1866. Mrs Keene, like Angelo Colarossi, the model for Iago, appears to have been one of Cameron's rare professional models. She also sat for the Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898). In Greek mythology Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda. Albumen print.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1955-71/3
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- type:
- albumen print
- credit:
- Holness, C.