Collage of 101 figures

1 portrait of Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

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Collage of 101 figures

compiled by Cecilia Mary Jocelyn (née Elliot), after Disdéri, after John Jabez Edwin Mayall, after Camille Silvy, and after Unknown photographers
1860s
13 3/8 in. x 10 3/8 in. (339 mm x 262 mm) overall
Bequeathed by Francis Needham, 1971
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax129160

Artistsback to top

  • Disdéri (1819-1889), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 220 portraits.
  • Cecilia Mary Jocelyn (née Elliot) (died 1894), Wife of Hon. William Nassau Jocelyn; daughter of Sir George Elliot. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait, Sitter associated with 6 portraits. Identify
  • John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 509 portraits.
  • Camille Silvy (1834-1910), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 14313 portraits, Sitter in 24 portraits.
  • Unknown photographers, Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 20 portraits.

Sittersback to top

Related worksback to top

  • NPG x74324: Eugénie, Empress of France (source portrait)
  • NPG Ax128994: Cecilia Mary Jocelyn (née Elliot) (source portrait)
  • NPG Ax128908: Mary Elliot (source portrait)
  • NPG x74578: Princess Marie Clotilde Bonaparte; Prince Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (source portrait)
  • NPG Ax24143: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (source portrait)

Events of 1860back to top

Current affairs

An early feminist movement, The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women is founded by Adelaide Anne Proctor, Emily Faithfull, Helen Blackburn, Bessie Parks, Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon, and Jessie Boucherett.
The Florence Nightingale Training School for Nurses opens at St Thomas's Hospital, in London, funded from the testimonial fund collected for Nightingale following her war services, and helping to establish nursing as a profession.

Art and science

William Morris and new wife Jane Burden move into the Red House, near Bexleyheath, Kent. The house, designed by Philip Webb, represents Morris's principle in interior design, that no object should be in a house that is not beautiful.
Ford Madox Brown paints The Last of England, showing a boat of emigrants leaving England under desperate circumstances, inspired by the emigration of the Pre-Raphaelite Thomas Woolner to Australia in 1852.

International

Italian unification continues as the Treaty of Turin brings much of Northern Italy under nationalist leader Cavour's control, who cedes Savoy and Nice to France. Garibaldi siezes the opportunity to invade Marsala in Sicily with his army of 1,000 redshirts, proclaiming himself dictator in the name of Victor Emmanuel II.
Republican Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the US, with only 39% of the popular vote.

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