Alfred Lord Tennyson

John Jabez Edwin Mayall

1864

Albumen print

5 1/8 inches x 3 3/4 in. (131 mm x 94 mm)

National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x197394

Given by Terence Pepper, 2014

Mayall, Jeffrey, Mudd and Rejlander were all professional photographers who made images of Tennyson and his family with their consent. Further compliance and even intimacy is implied by the fact that Mayall and Rejlander were invited into the family home at Farringford. — Jim Cheshire

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