Jules Verne
- photographer:
- Lock and Whitfield
A Woodburytype portrait of Jules Verne taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1877. This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time.
A Woodburytype portrait of Jules Verne taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1877.
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French science fiction author, his best known works include 'Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea' (1870) and 'Around the World in Eighty Days' (1873).
This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time. A brief biographical essay by Thompson Cooper (1837-1904) accompanied each portrait.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/6007/14
- Materials:
- paper
- type:
- photograph and woodburytype
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
