Lady Tennyson
c. 1893
Medium
Photogravure, plate 7 from the album "Lord Tennyson and his Friends" (1893)
Dimensions
Image: 22.8 × 17.8 cm (9 × 7 1/16 in.); Album page: 45 × 36.4 cm (17 3/4 × 14 3/8 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
136865
Art Historical Context
**Lady Tennyson** (c. 1893) is a striking photogravure portrait by Henry Herschel Cameron, capturing the poised elegance of Emily Tennyson wife of the renowned poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. As plate 7 from the album *Lord Tennyson and his* (1893), this image immerses viewers in the intimate world of Victorian literary circles. Cameron, a skilled photographer known for his soft-focus, pictorialist style, transforms a simple portrait into a poetic evocation of grace and introspection, reflecting the era's fascination with celebrity authors and their muses. Photogravure, the medium here, was a rev...