Tennyson reading "Maud"

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Date: 1855

Materials: Pen with brown and black ink and brown ink

A favourite poem

At a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning on the evening of 27 September 1855,
Rossetti made an impromptu sketch of Alfred Tennyson reading one of his favourite poems, 'Maud'. The
drawing was offered to his hosts as a gift, but not until Rossetti had made at least two copies of it: one was
done for Elizabeth Siddal, and this is the second.