Alfred Lord Tennyson

James Mudd

1861

Woodburytype

3 3/8 x 2 inches (86 mm x 56 mm)

National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x13232

Given by Arthur Myers Smith, 1931

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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