Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Overview
Extended Catalogue Entry

by Thomas Woolner
plaster cast of bust, 1873
28 1/4 in. (718 mm) high
Purchased, 1912
Primary Collection
NPG 1667

Sitterback to top

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), Poet Laureate. Sitter in 97 portraits.

Artistback to top

Thomas Woolner (1825-1892), Sculptor and poet. Artist associated with 24 portraits, Sitter in 28 portraits.

Related worksback to top

NPG x13286: Thomas Woolner (includes the portrait)

Linked publicationsback to top

Ormond, Richard, Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, p. 452
Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 608

Subjects & Themesback to top

Events of 1873back to top

Current affairs

The public entertainment centre Alexandra Palace, designed by architect Owen Jones (associated with the Crystal Palace) and built between Wood Green and Muswell Hill in North London, burns down within sixteen days of opening. Named after Alexandra of Denmark, married to Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, the palace was quickly rebuilt, and has since been used as a transmission centre for the BBC, and as a musical entertainment venue.

Art and science

Edith Coleridge edits her late mother Sara Coleridge's Memoir and Letters. Sara, the daughter of the poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was an author, translator and editor of her father's works.

International

Inspired by prospectors' demands for better quality trousers during the 1850s Gold Rush, Levi Strauss develops a trouser made with twilled cotton cloth from France called 'serge de Nimes', later known as denim. This year, he patents the process of putting rivets in the trousers for strength, introducing 'blue jeans' to the world.

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