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
