JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815-1879) Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1869. Albumen print, the image measuring 12¼x9½ inches (31.1x24.1 cm.), the mount 18½x13¾ inches (47x34.9 cm.), with Cameron's signature, notation "From Life," and negative date in ink, and the Colnaghi blind stamp, on mount recto.
Provenance The Collection of Neil Robert Berzak
Reproduced Cox & Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs (The J. Paul Getty Museum), p. 359, pl. 810
Some of Tennyson's early poems were in print even before he was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, when he won the Chancellor's Prize for Poetry. After he published a two-volume collection of his poetry in 1842, Tennyson became the most popular poet of the age. He was made Queen Victoria's poet laureate in 1850.
