["THE DIRTY MONK"] INSCRIBED PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF ALFRED TENNYSON

by Cameron, Julia Margaret:

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Book desription: Freshwater, Isle of Wight. [taken May 1865].. Original albumen print (25.5 x 20 cm) on contemporary mount. Mount a bit edgeworn, and verso slightly discolored at edges from old mat tape (now newly affixed with archival tissue), two old pencil notes and single word ink note on verso of mount, otherwise very good. A characteristic print of one of Tennyson's own favorites among the many portraits Cameron took of him during the mid to late 1860s, and the image selected as the first portrait frontis for her ILLUSTRATIONS TO TENNYSON'S IDYLLS OF THE KING AND OTHER POEMS (1875). This print is an arched print, as it was when included in that work, but is mounted on tan board rather than the distinctive blue board of that edition. This print is inscribed on the mount by Cameron: "From Life Registered Photograph Copy Right Julia Margaret Cameron Freshwater I of W." It also bears a likely lithographed facsimile of Tennyson's signature, declared "genuine" by one of the very early pencil notes on the verso. COX & FORD 796.

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