Julia Margaret Cameron
1865, May
'The Dirty Monk', Alfred Lord Tennyson

Albumen print
22.7 x 18.8 cm
 
Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Photography: The First 150 Years, 9 March 2018, Lot: 206
 
Originally taken as part of a series to illustrate Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King', the portrait only later appeared as the frontispiece in Cameron's book of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Other Poems Illustrated by Julia Margaret Cameron
 
LL/82028