Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron, W.H. Longfellow

W.H. Longfellow, July 1868

Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879)

RA Collection: Art

Photogravure printed by H.H.H.Cameron and his partner J.C. Smith from negatives by Julia Margaret Cameron for the publication Alfred, Lord Tennyson And His Friends.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow visited Alfred, Lord Tennyson at his home at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight for two days in July 1868. Whilst he was there, Tennyson introduced him to his near neighbour Julia Margaret Cameron. In Helmut Gernsheim's biography of Cameron, he relates how Tennyson introduces him with the words:

'I have brought you a great man; he will let you immortalise him...I will leave you now Longfellow. You will have to do whatever she tells you. I will come back soon and see what is left of you.'

Object details

Title

W.H. Longfellow

Photographed by

Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879)

Printed by

Henry Herschel Hay Cameron? (1852 - 1911) and J.C. Smith?

From

Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends A Series of 25 Portraits and Frontispiece in Photogravure From The Negatives Of Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron And H.H.H. Cameron Reminiscences By Anne Thackeray Ritchie With Introduction by H.H. Hay Cameron

Date

July 1868

Object type

Photogravure

Place of Production

London

Medium

Photogravure

Dimensions

241 mm x 179 mm

Collection

Royal Academy of Arts

Object number

11/4052

This image is from a book

Alfred, Lord Tennyson And His Friends A Series of 25 Portraits and Frontispiece In Photogravure From The Negatives Of Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron And H.H.H. Cameron Reminiscences By Anne Thackeray Ritchie With Introduction By H.H. Hay Cameron - London: 1893

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