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Identification and Creation

Object Number
119.1976.417
People
Julia Margaret Cameron, British (Calcutta, India 1815 - 1879 Kalutara, Ceylon)
Title
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1865, possibly printed posthumously
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/281019

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Carbon print
Dimensions
image: 35.5 x 26.3 cm (14 x 10 3/8 in.)
mount: 50 x 40.3 cm (19 11/16 x 15 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto of the mount, upper center, graphite: Wanted Sep. 13 -
  • inscription: recto of the mount, lower center, graphite: 5 1/4
    4 1/2 [crossed out]
    Tennyson
  • inscription: recto of the mount, lower left, graphite: carbon print
  • inscription: verso of the mount, upper left, graphite: Rec'd from [illegible] [crossed out]
    Aug. 28/97 [crossed out]
  • inscription: verso of the mount, center, graphite: Alfred Lord Tennyson
    from life
    by Mrs M. Cameron
  • stamp: verso of the mount, center, black ink: HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
    FROM
    THE BEQUEST OF
    EVERT JANSEN WENDELL
    1918
  • label: verso of the mount, center, paper label with ink inscriptions and stamp: [publication label from the Century Company]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Evert Jansen Wendell,[1] bequest; to Harvard College Library, 1918, placed on deposit at Fogg Art Museum.

[1] Wendell may have purchased this photograph from the Autotype Company, which printed carbon prints of Cameron's photographs beginning in 1875, or from Colnaghi's, which Peter Henry Emerson notes in his 1890 "Sun Artists" sold Cameron photographs.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, On loan from Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library, Bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell
Object Number
119.1976.417
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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