Alfred Lord Tennyson

James Mudd

1861

Albumen print

3 x 2 1/4 inches (76 mm x 57 mm)

National Portrait Gallery, London NPG P34

Purchased, 1977

Of the early images, James Mudd’s portrait of Tennyson in a ‘wide-awake-hat’ published by Cundall and Downes seems to have been one of the most widely disseminated. — Jim Cheshire

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