Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
10 of 81 portraits of Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
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Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
by Maull & Fox
albumen panel card, after 1877
7 3/8 in. x 3 5/8 in. (187 mm x 93 mm) image size
Given by the daughters of Walter William Ouless, Catherine, Evelyn Ursula and Margaret Olivia Ouless, 1934
Photographs Collection
NPG x4976
Sitterback to top
- Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832-1914), Field Marshal. Sitter in 81 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Maull & Fox (active 1877-1928), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 73 portraits.
Placesback to top
- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographers' studio, 187a Piccadilly, London)
Events of 1877back to top
Current affairs
Trial of social activists Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh following their publication of a book by the American birth-control campaigner Charles Knowlton, which suggested that working class families should be able to practice birth control. Although found guilty, the case was thrown out on a technical fault.Art and science
The Grosevenor Gallery opens, founded by Sir Coutts Lindsay, as a rival to the Royal Academy. It exhibited work by artists such as Edward Burne-Jones and Walter Crane, outside of the British mainstream, and became famous as the home of the Aesthetic movement.The first Lawn Tennis Championship is held at Wimbledon with around 20 male competitors, witnessed by a few hundred spectators. Spencer Gore the first singles champion, wins 12 guineas.
International
The American inventor Thomas Edison invents the tin foil phonograph, combining the technologies of the telegraph and telephone. Experimenting with a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder, he recorded and played back the short message 'Mary had a little lamb'.Comments back to top
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