Artist
Julia Margaret Cameron(British, born India, 1815–1879)British, born India, 1815–1879
CultureBritish
Titles
- Alfred Tennyson
- from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life
DateJune 3, 1869, assembled 1869
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 12 × 9 1/2 in. (30.5 × 24.1 cm)
Sheet: 12 × 9 1/2 in. (30.5 × 24.1 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)
Sheet: 12 × 9 1/2 in. (30.5 × 24.1 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2021.282.6
Non exposé
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When Cameron’s husband, Charles, retired and the couple moved from India to England with their six children, they settled first near Charles’s old friend the poet Henry Taylor and later near Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Poet Laureate. For Cameron, these men were not merely friends and neighbors but also part of her intellectual, spiritual, and artistic circle. Tennyson, who jokingly referred to Cameron’s models as “victims,” resisted her appeals to sit for his portrait but ultimately succumbed.
ProvenanceGiven by the artist to her daughter Julia and son-in-law Charles Norman; by descent to his son Archibald Cameron Norman; by descent to his son Charles Lloyd Norman; by descent to his son Charles Wake Norman; by descent to his son to William Norman; by descent to his son Stephen Norman; [consigned to Hans P. Kraus, New York, 2012]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed on mount recto, below image: taken 3rd June 1869 // Alfred Tennyson // Poet Laureate
Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 810
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