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

TITLE ON OBJECT: A. Tennyson
BOOK TITLE: --Julia Margaret Cameron's Illustrations to Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" and Other Poems.-- London: 1875.

(1865)
PUBLISHER: Henry S. King & Company
albumen print
25.7 x 20.2 cm. (arched)
Museum purchase
GEH NEG: 19749
74:0087:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Millard, Charles W. "Julia Margaret Cameron and Tennyson's "Idylls of the King".", --Harvard Library Bulletin--, Vol. 21, no. 2, 1973 April. p. 187-201.//
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 from Julia Margaret Cameron on August 5, 1865.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(signature in ink) "A Tennyson", (signature and handwritten notations in ink) "From Life Registered Photograph Copy right Julia Julia Margaret Cameron"

FRAME: cream mount, gold margin, frontispiece

NOTES: Auction: Sotheby's Belgravia, December 4, 1973, lot #68. Cameron citation of registration and copyright. Copyright registration May 3, 1865, "Photograph of Alfred Tennyson nearly profile portion of second eyelid and eyebrow showing throat bare hollding a folio book with hand over one side draped in cloak" Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84.

SUBJECTS:
personage, literary / Tennyson, Alfred
allegory

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