Alfred Lord Tennyson

John Jabez Edwin Mayall

1883

Woodburytype

4 1/2 x 3 5/8 inches (115 mm x 91 mm) image

Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington

National Portrait Gallery, London NPG Ax17709

Acquired unknown source, 1883

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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