Family Heirloom

[poliphilo]

And here's the original photograph of Alfred Lord Tennyson that was handed down in my Grandmother's family.



And here's the inscription on the reverse. A. Colenutt is (I believe) Annie Colenutt, my grandmother's mother.

Comments

[algabal.livejournal.com]

It looks a lot like a Julia Margaret Cameron photograph.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Sadly it isn't. Nor is it a Lewis Carroll. I looked it up once. It's the work of a lesser-known photographer