Julia Margaret Cameron
Lionel Tennyson in the character of Marquis de St. Cast

ArtistBritish, born India, 1815–1879
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Lionel Tennyson in the character of Marquis de St. Cast
  • from the album Mrs. Cameron’s Photographs from the Life
Date1869, assembled 1869
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 12 15/16 × 10 1/4 in. (32.8 × 26.1 cm)
Sheet: 12 15/16 × 10 1/4 in. (32.8 × 26.1 cm)
Mount: 18 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (46 × 31.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2021.282.31
Non exposé

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Photography
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Description


Cameron enlisted friends, family, neighbors, and household staff in her photographic activities, often costuming them as if for one of the ama­teur theatricals she presented at her home in Freshwater, on the Isle of Wight. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate, was her next-door neighbor, and his second son, Lionel, was a childhood friend of Cameron’s own sons. Here, Cameron’s inscription notes that Lionel is “in the character of Marquis de St. Cast as acted in Payable on Demand at the Private Theatricals at Mrs. Cameron’s Thatched House in aid of The Freshwater Village Hospital.”



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: Lionel Tennyson in the character of Marquis de St Cast // as acted in Payable on Demand at the Private Theatricals // at Mrs Cameron’s Thatched House in aid of // The Freshwater Village Hospital
Catalogue raisonnéCox & Ford p. 505 "Norman Album", plate 1032

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