CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET, photographer. Half-length albumen print profile portrait of Tennyson, 10 by 8 inches, by Julia Margeret Cameron, 1856, Fresh Water Bay, Isle of Wight, England, signed by the photographer on original 12 1/2 x 10 inch mount and inscribed below lower corner of portrait "Fresh Water Bay 1856 from life," subject identified in pencil in an unknown hand, skillfully repaired long closed tear, one repaired scratch, some small light surface scratches; still, very good. Matted. THE "DIRTY MONK" PORTRAIT OF TENNYSON, SIGNED BY CAMERON. Originally taken as part of a series to illustrate Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," the portrait only later appeared as the frontispiece in Cameron's book Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King and other Poems Illustrated by Julia Margaret Cameron This was Tennyson's preferred portrait of himself.
CAMERON, JULIA MARGARET, photographer. Half-length albumen print profile portrait of Tennyson, 10 by 8 inches, by Julia Margeret Cameron, 1856, Fresh Water Bay, Isle of Wight, England, signed by the photographer on original 12 1/2 x 10 inch mount and inscribed below lower corner of portrait "Fresh Water Bay 1856 from life," subject identified in pencil in an unknown hand, skillfully repaired long closed tear, one repaired scratch, some small light surface scratches; still, very good. Matted. THE "DIRTY MONK" PORTRAIT OF TENNYSON, SIGNED BY CAMERON. Originally taken as part of a series to illustrate Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," the portrait only later appeared as the frontispiece in Cameron's book Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King and other Poems Illustrated by Julia Margaret Cameron This was Tennyson's preferred portrait of himself.
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