Alfred Lord Tennyson

John Jabez Edwin Mayall

1864

Albumen carte-de-visite

3 x 2 1/4 inches (89 mm x 58 mm)

National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x3686

Given by Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, 1972

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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