And so to Dimbola Lodge for cream tea and a look at works from one of the great photographic pioneers. The gift of a camera in 1863 sparked an enthusiasm in Julia Margaret Cameron for this new art form. Within a year she had begun to present her friends with albums of her work and was elected a member of the photographic society in London. Dimbola Lodge served as both her home and, more importantly, her studio. It was here that the greatest of the Cameron photographs were made.
From Dimbola Lodge Cameron welcomed - and photographed - the cream of Victorian society. Tennyson, Darwin, Watts and Thackeray lived locally, and guests often included Lewis Carroll, Robert Browning, Holman Hunt, Palgrave, Edward Lear and - as here - the actress Ellen Terry.
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