A Woodburytype portrait of William Frith, taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1880. 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 William Frith, taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1880.
William Frith (1819-1909) was an English painter, famous for his paintings of everyday life, most notably 'Derby Day' (1858).
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.
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- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/6007/23
- type:
- photograph
- taxonomy:
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- visual and verbal communication
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
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