The Poet Laureate

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22 July 1871

Vanity Fair

"Men of the Day No. 28" [Alfred Tennyson]

"No. 142" appears at lower left.

Other Vanity Fair Caricatures

  • "The Realization of the Ideal" (John Ruskin)
  • "The Representative of Romance" (Bulwer-Lytton)
  • Thomas Carlyle
  • The Queen's Sculptor" (Joseph Edgar Boehm)
  • Photograph and text 2006 by George P. Landow.

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