Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Browning

Robert Browning, May 1865

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.

Tennyson first met Browning in 1841 at a breakfast given by Richard Monckton Milnes. In April 1846, they met again when Browning described him as 'a LONG, lazy kind of man, at least just after dinner...yet there is something "naif" about him, too... the genius you see, too.'

They became closer friends after another meeting in Paris in 1851, particularly so in the case of Emily Tennyson and Elizabeth Browning. Each had married late, had lost a child and both suffered ill-health. Thereafter they were to correspond regularly.

Object details

Title

Robert Browning

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

May 1865

Object type

Photogravure

Place of Production

London

Medium

Photogravure

Dimensions

247 mm x 194 mm

Collection

Royal Academy of Arts

Object number

12/482

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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