Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Alfred Tennyson, c1860

Date: c1860

Publisher: Malone & Macdonald, London

Paper Size: 270 x 210mm

Condition: Good

Technique: Lithograph

Price: $50

Provenance:

Ardently Admired by Queen Victoria.

Alfred Tennyson, First Baron Tennyson, was an English poet. He was appointed poet laureate (1850-1892) during Queen Victoria's reign. Famous works "Break Break Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears", and " Crossing the Bar".

Famous Phrases:

"Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all"

"There's not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die"

"Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers"

"My strength is as the strength of ten,/Because my heart is pure"