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The photographs:
Famous Men and Fair Women
Julia Margaret CAMERON
British, 1815–79
Portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1867
albumen silver photograph
26.8 x 34.5cm
The Wilson Centre for Photography
85:2099
In 1850, Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) became England's Poet Laureate
after Wordsworth's death. With the royalties that he earned from his poem
Maud he was able to purchase Farringford, a mansion at Freshwater on the Isle
of Wight. Tennyson's presence attracted the famous and the curious to the
island. Julia Margaret Cameron visited the Tennysons in 1860 and purchased a
neighbouring property. Four years later she began her career in photography
at her Freshwater home, Dimbola Lodge.
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