Two photograph albums and loose photographs found in them. All the photographs are portraits, of Alfred Tennyson, Henry Taylor, Charles Darwin, Holman Hunt, Thomas Hughes, W. G. Palgrave, G. F. Watts, family members Julia Duckworth Stephen and May Prinsep, as well as neighbors and servants on the Isle of Wight. Accompanied by several photogravures of Alfred Tennyson printed after his death.
Description:
Accompanied by a container list., Bound in 3/4 green calf., Julia Margaret Cameron, early English portrait photographer., and Title taken from album covers.
Subject (Name):
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--Portraits
Two photograph albums and loose photographs found in them. All the photographs are portraits, of Alfred Tennyson, Henry Taylor, Charles Darwin, Holman Hunt, Thomas Hughes, W. G. Palgrave, G. F. Watts, family members Julia Duckworth Stephen and May Prinsep, as well as neighbors and servants on the Isle of Wight. Accompanied by several photogravures of Alfred Tennyson printed after his death.
Description:
Accompanied by a container list., Bound in 3/4 green calf., Julia Margaret Cameron, early English portrait photographer., and Title taken from album covers.
Subject (Name):
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--Portraits
A foppishly dressed young man, intended to represent a starving Frenchman, is begging for a "letel bite" from a boy in a butcher's apron. The boy is holding a large bone in his hands and has a slab of beef ribs sticking out of his pocket.
Description:
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Subject (Topic):
Butchers., Clothing & dress--England--1780., Dandies--French., Meat., National characteristics, French., and Starvation.
