Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, Duchess of Argyll

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Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, Duchess of Argyll

by William Henry Simmons, published by Henry Graves & Co, and published by John Mitchell, after Walter Rowland Holyoake
mezzotint, published 1 January 1872
22 5/8 in. x 15 3/8 in. (575 mm x 392 mm) plate size; 24 1/8 in. x 18 in. (612 mm x 457 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1957
Reference Collection
NPG D33824

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  • Henry Graves & Co (active 1844-1899), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 257 portraits.
  • Walter Rowland Holyoake (circa 1836-1889), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 3 portraits.
  • John Mitchell (active 1832-died 1889), Publisher. Artist or producer associated with 206 portraits.
  • William Henry Simmons (1811-1882), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 14 portraits.

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Current affairs

The (Secret) Ballot Act is passed. By ending open voting in local and general elections, the act reduced the scope for intimidation at hustings, an important step towards democracy. Previously, voters had to mount a platform and announce their choice of candidate to a recording officer, so although most working men had already been enfranchised, employers were able to punish workers who did not vote for their preferred candidate.

Art and science

George Eliot's novel Middlemarch is published. Exploring the impact of the 1832 Reform Act on provincial England, and charting the changes in class, politics, art and science in the nineteenth-century, Eliot's novel is widely perceived to be one of the best examples of the English realist novel.

International

The Metaphysical Club is formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by William James (brother of author Henry James), Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr, and Charles Sanders Peirce. The group begins to develop the American philosophy of pragmatism, which held that ideas were simply mental constructs that people formed to help them cope with the world, but which did not exist in an ideal realm.

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