Tennyson; Alfred; 1st Baron Tennyson; 1809 - 1892;Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland. Works: Idylls of the King; narrative poems; published between 1859 and 1885. Merlin paints the image of a gardener over the eagle on the squire's shield.Illustration no. 2 for "Viviana"). Steel engraving; 1871; by Thomas Oldham Barlow after drawing by Gustave Dor?(1832-1883). From: Idylls of the King.Hamburg (Verlagsanstalt); undated.Berlin; Sammlung Archiv f黵 Kunst und Geschichte.