JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815-1879) Idylls of the King, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson), presented to Mrs. Cameron by the author, August 6, 1859. (Inscription on the title page, and in a red morocco presentation binding gold stamped Julia Margaret Cameron.)
ULIA Margaret Cameron lived at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight where she was a neighbor and friend of Tennyson's. She took up photography in 1865 and her portraits of many distinguished figures, including Browning, Darwin, and Tennyson, are regarded as among the finest portrait photographs ever made, capturing the geniuses of their subjects as well as their likenesses. This association volume is particularly notable because Cameron's definitive portrait of the author has become the principal image by which Tennyson is remembered today.
ULIA Margaret Cameron lived at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight where she was a neighbor and friend of Tennyson's. She took up photography in 1865 and her portraits of many distinguished figures, including Browning, Darwin, and Tennyson, are regarded as among the finest portrait photographs ever made, capturing the geniuses of their subjects as well as their likenesses. This association volume is particularly notable because Cameron's definitive portrait of the author has become the principal image by which Tennyson is remembered today.