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The Tichborne Claimant Trial Album: cartes-de-visite by various photographers, 1860s-1870s

183 Portraits in set

The Tichborne Trials were the most controversial court cases of the Victorian age, and two of the longest in English legal history, captivating popular imagination from the Claimant’s arrival in England in 1866 until the case’s end more than eight years later. They involved an aristocratic family, the Tichbornes, and a poor Australian immigrant who claimed to be one of them in a battle over the Tichborne title and estate. This legal event left a legacy that is also political and cultural. The trials led to English legal reform and changes in the law. They revealed the divisions of power inherent in English society, splitting public opinion as the establishment mainly stood against the Claimant, who was also called Tomas Castro or Arthur Orton, while the working-classes mainly supported him. Press commentary was vociferous throughout and the public revelled in the daily reports of the case. Collectible cartes-de-visite of the main protagonists and other ephemera contributed to the sense of spectacle.

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Roger Charles Doughty-Tichborne

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, after Thomas Helsby
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1873 (1854)
NPG Ax28421

Florence Nightingale

by William Edward Kilburn
albumen carte-de-visite, (circa 1856)
NPG Ax28403

Charles Dickens

by Herbert Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, (29 April 1858)
NPG Ax28569

John Newman

by Henry Joseph Whitlock
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax28412

George Cruikshank

by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax28570

Louis Adolphe Thiers

by Maison Lefevre Frères, after Charles Reutlinger
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s-1870s
NPG Ax28405

Nasser al-Din, Shah of Persia

by Makzamoff, after Unknown artist
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s-1870s
NPG Ax28414

Frederick Bowker

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s-1870s
NPG Ax28427

William Ballantine

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s-1870s
NPG Ax28430

Henri d'Artois, Count of Chambord

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s-1870s
NPG Ax28440

Unknown man, formerly known as Samuel Anderson Emery

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s-1870s
NPG Ax28517

Joseph Gungl

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s-1870s
NPG Ax28527

Samuel Phelps

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax28542

Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck-Schonhausen

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax28553

David Livingstone

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
On display in Room 23 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG Ax28415