Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary in 'Our American Cousin'
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary in 'Our American Cousin'
by Alexander Bassano
albumen carte-de-visite, 1862
3 5/8 in. x 2 1/4 in. (91 mm x 57 mm) image size
Given by Algernon Graves, 1916
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax25093
Artistback to top
- Alexander Bassano (1829-1913), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 2805 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.
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Bassano advertised his photographs of Sothern in The Times as 'The only authorized CARTES DE VISITE [...] Each card has the name and address at the back.' This was probably a response to illegal copying of his images before the 1862 Copyright Act extended protection to photographs.
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 122 Regent Street, London)
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Alexander Bassano: Victorian Photographer (From 25 March 2013)
Events of 1862back to top
Current affairs
The Lancashire cotton famine, a depression in the north-west textile industry brought about by the American civil war, reaches its climax. With large numbers of mills closing after Confederate blockades halted cotton supplies, many Lancashire families were in receipt of relief.Art and science
Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard carry out the first pasteurisation tests, the process of heating liquids at 55 degree Celsius or higher for short periods of time, destroying viruses and harmful organisms such as bacteria and yeast. .Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables is published, covering the Napoleonic wars. It traces the ex-convict Jean Valjean's character against wider questions of social and political justice, duty and love.
International
Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck becomes Minister-President of Prussia, appointed by Wilhelm I after the liberal Diet refused to authorise funding for a proposed reorganisation of the army. Bismarck, intent on maintaining royal supremacy, engineers the Unification of Germany during his time in office.John Hanning Speke claims to have found the source of the Nile, proving that the Victoria Nile issued from the north end of lake Victoria, over Ripon Falls.
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