" THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF THE LAUREATE." INSCRIBED PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF ALFRED TENNYSON
by Cameron, Julia Margaret:
Price: $5,500.00
- Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: WRCLIT 61245
- Publisher: [Freshwater, Isle of Wight]. June 3rd 1869.
Book Description
[Freshwater, Isle of Wight]. June 3rd 1869.. Original albumen print (30.2 x 24 cm) on contemporary mount. Mount a bit edgeworn and tanned, and verso discolored from old mat tape (now freshly matted), two old pencil notes on verso of mount, a couple small surface abrasions to photograph, otherwise about very good. A characteristic print of the last of the many portraits Cameron took of Tennyson during the mid to late 1860s. This print is inscribed on the mount by Cameron: "From Life Registered Photograph Copy Right Julia Margaret Cameron June 3rd 1869. The last Photograph of the Laureate." It also bears a likely lithographed facsimile of Tennyson's signature. COX & FORD 810.
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