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

TITLE ON OBJECT: A. Tennyson

(1866)
albumen print
27.9 x 22.3 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company
GEH NEG: 3585
81:1125:0001

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 352-1
NON-GEH NUMBER: 43698-A

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Newhall, Beaumont & Nancy. --Masters of Photography.-- New York: Bonanza Books, 1958. p. 48.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Early Photography", US, MA, Northampton, Smith College Art Gallery, February 24 - March 30, 1950.//
"Art of Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Mansion 2nd Floor, May 22, 1961 - 1973.//
"Cameron: Her Work and Career", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, April 11 - May 25, 1986.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(lithographed signature) "A. Tennyson", (signature and handwritten notations in ink by artist) "Registered Photograph Julia Margaret Cameron", "For the Signor" mat verso-(blue stamp) "361", (rubber stamped) "Eastman Historical Photographic Collection", "43698A"

FRAME: cream mount, tint block

NOTES: Provenance: Purchased by Kodak (1940) from Gerald Massey. Cameron citation of registration. Eight portraits of Tennyson registered for copyright on July 9, 1866; 4 described as with cape. Copyright registered August 4, 1865, "A Photograph of Alfred Tennyson 3/4 face cap on head throat base draped in drapery over chest & shoulders eyes looking straight." Catalogued by JL/PB, 11/84.

SUBJECT: personage, literary / Tennyson, Alfred

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