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001 $ 05/1106
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220714134011.2
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Cameron
245 1 0 $a 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
260 # # $a London $b T. Fisher Unwin Paternoster Square $c 1893
300 # # $a [2], 16 p., [25] pl. (incl. divisional title pl.); $c 445 mm.
505 0 # $a [Leaf stating print-run; half-title, title page] - List Of Portraits - Introduction - Reminiscences - [Divisional title-plate] - [Plates].
508 # # $a The divisional title-plate is signed as designed by W.A. Smith. Most plates are not signed but carry the inscription, 'from life'. In his Introduction Mrs Cameron's son records that his mother's photographs are here supplemented by his own, but does not state which are his. Five plates carry the name of the source-artist G.F. Watts, R.A.; one, that of Chantrey.
510 0 # $a C. Ricks, ed., Tennyson and his friends [exhibition catalogue] (1992); J. Howard, Whisper of the Muse [exhibition catalogue] (1990); Cameron: her work and career, by J. Lukitsch [exhibition catalogue] (1986); A. Hopkinson, Julia Margaret Cameron (1986); Virginia Woolf, Freshwater: a comedy, ed. L.P. Ruotolo (1976).
520 2 # $a The half-title is preceded by a leaf on which is printed, 'This Edition Is Limited To 400 Copies, Of Which 150 Are For Sale In The United States Of America. This Copy Is Number 404'.

The first plate is a divisional title-plate; the rest are all portraits captioned with the name of the sitter. They show Alfred Lord Tennyson (4 plates), Arthur Hallam, Lady Tennyson, Carlyle, Browning, Gladstone, Herschel, Hallam Lord Tennyson, Lionel Tennyson, Mrs. Cameron, G.F. Watts, James Spedding, Darwin, Longfellow, Dr Jowett, Dr Butler, Mrs Thackeray Ritchie, Dean Bradley, James Russell Lowell, the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, W.E.H. Lecky and Henry Irving as 'Becket'.

In the Introduction Mrs Cameron's son quotes her words, 'When I have had these men before my camera my whole soul has endeavoured to do its duty towards them recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man'. Mrs Ritchie reminisces, 'Mrs Cameron's power was a peculiar one ... She had a directness and originality ... which she applied to other things than chemicals ... and also expected much from her sitters ... We trembled (or we should have trembled had we dared to do so) when the round black eye of the camera turned upon us, we felt what consequences, what disastrous waste ... might ensue from any passing shiver of emotion'.
562 # # $a Imperfect; lacks three plates (portraits of Carlyle, Gladstone and Irving).
563 # # $a 20th-century brown cloth-covered boards; red morocco spine label lettered 'Cameron - Photogravure Portraits Of Tennyson', spine lettered 'R.A.'
600 1 4 $a Tennyson
600 1 4 $a Cameron
653 # # $a Celebrities - Poets - Writers - Portraits - Great Britain - History - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Photomechanical prints - Photogravures - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Cameron
700 1 # $a Ritchie
700 1 # $a Unwin $e publisher
700 1 # $a Smith $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Watts $e source artist
700 1 # $a Chantrey $e source artist