Dr Schliemann

Made:
1877 in England
photographer:
Lock and Whitfield
Dr Schliemann

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The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
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A Woodburytype entitled 'Dr Schliemann', 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 brief biographical essay by Thompson Cooper (1837-1904) accompanied each portrait.

Dr Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) was a pioneer in archaeology, he carried out excavations of ancient Troy and Mycenae in Greece in the 1870s.

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:
1990-5036/6007/15
Materials:
paper
type:
photograph and woodburytype
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford