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Cameron, Julia Margaret
English (b. India, 1815-1879)

TITLE ON OBJECT: A. Tennyson

(1865)
albumen print
25.3 x 20.1 cm.
Museum purchase
GEH NEG: 14960
71:0011:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Cameron, Julia Margaret. --Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women.-- New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. pl. 4.//
Ford, Colin. --The Cameron Collection: An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron Presented to Sir John Herschel.-- Wokingham/New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1975. pl. 73.//
Gernsheim, Helmut. --Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Photographic Work.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1975. p. 30.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

Overstone plate 1. From album given to Lord Overstone by Julia Margaret Cameron on August 5, 1865.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Gallery, March 1985 - April 1987, 1985.//
"Cameron: Her Work and Career", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, April 11 - May 25, 1986.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(lithographed signature by Alfred Tennyson) "A. Tennyson", (signature and handwritten notations in ink by artist) "From Life Julia Margaret Cameron", (embossed stamp) "Registered Photograph London Sold By Messrs Colnaghi 140 Pall Mall East"

FRAME: cream mount, tint block

NOTES: Provenance: Emily Driscoll. Copyright registration May 3, 1865, "Photograph of Alfred Tennyson nearly profile portion of second eyelid and eyebrow showing throat bare holding a folio book with hand over one side draped in cloak." Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84.

SUBJECT: personage, literary / Tennyson, Alfred

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