Given a camera at 48, Cameron turned a chicken coop at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight into a studio and spent eleven intense years making photographs unlike anyone else's — close, soft, life-size heads of the great men she knew, and her family and maids dressed as saints, poets and heroines. She printed and signed her own albumen prints, sold them, and illustrated Tennyson's Idylls of the King before moving to Ceylon. The pieces here are in the public domain, from museums that share their collections openly — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.