Tennyson's The Lord of Burleigh - The Death of Lady Burleigh - Sketch of the Nurse and Boy1855 – 1856 Accession number: 1906P567 Pencil on blue laid paper. Width: 113 mm Height: 181 mm InformationThis was drawn in preparation for the design engraved by the Dalziel Brothers for Tennyson's Poems, published in 1857. In this scene the lord himself is absent from the action, and the death of his wife is poignantly witnessed by her baby son held by his nurse.
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