Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

by James Stephenson, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, Scott & Co, after George Frederic Watts
line engraving, published 1 February 1862
16 1/8 in. x 12 in. (408 mm x 306 mm) plate size; 27 1/2 in. x 19 7/8 in. (698 mm x 504 mm) paper size
Given by Ernest E. Leggatt, 1929
Reference Collection
NPG D40522

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  • Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, Scott & Co (active 1862-1863), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 8 portraits.
  • James Stephenson (1808-1886), Engraver and lithographer. Artist or producer associated with 13 portraits.
  • George Frederic Watts (1817-1904), Painter and sculptor; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Artist or producer associated with 93 portraits, Sitter in 43 portraits.

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Current affairs

The Lancashire cotton famine, a depression in the north-west textile industry brought about by the American civil war, reaches its climax. With large numbers of mills closing after Confederate blockades halted cotton supplies, many Lancashire families were in receipt of relief.

Art and science

Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard carry out the first pasteurisation tests, the process of heating liquids at 55 degree Celsius or higher for short periods of time, destroying viruses and harmful organisms such as bacteria and yeast. .
Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables is published, covering the Napoleonic wars. It traces the ex-convict Jean Valjean's character against wider questions of social and political justice, duty and love.

International

Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck becomes Minister-President of Prussia, appointed by Wilhelm I after the liberal Diet refused to authorise funding for a proposed reorganisation of the army. Bismarck, intent on maintaining royal supremacy, engineers the Unification of Germany during his time in office.
John Hanning Speke claims to have found the source of the Nile, proving that the Victoria Nile issued from the north end of lake Victoria, over Ripon Falls.

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Barbara Davis

25 September 2020, 17:21

I found this page after searching for the image after I found the same original print signed by Tennyson in fine pencil ("Yours ever, A Tennyson") at a thrift store where I live in Ohio. Bizarrely it is glued to an old block of wood that seems to be as old as the print from the nails in the back, and badly varnished over. I doubt it has monetary value but it was great to find it in the NPG!