A Woodburytype entitled 'Henry M Stanley', 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 entitled 'Henry M Stanley', taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1880.
Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was commissioned by the 'New York Herald' to find the explorer Dr David Livingstone (1813-1873) who was lost in Africa. Later, Stanley's account of his arduous journey, 'How I Found Livingstone' (1872), became a bestseller.
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:
- 1990-5036/6007/24
- Materials:
- paper
- type:
- photograph and woodburytype
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
