'Alfred Tennyson', about 1866
Photograph entitled 'Alfred Tennyson' taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in about 1866. Albumen contact print from wet collodion negative. This photographic portrait of the poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) forms part of the Herschel Album, created by Cameron for her friend Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). Tennyson was the most popular poet of the Victorian period. He was made Queen Victoria's poet laureate in 1850.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1984-5017/72
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
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overall: 254 mm x 201 mm
- type:
- photograph and albumen print
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
- credit:
- Sotheby's
