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Fanny Stirling as Mrs Candour in 'The School for Scandal'

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- set matching 'Celebrities of the London Stage: by Mayall'
- 'Image on website'

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen print, 1864; published 1864-1865
3 5/8 in. x 2 1/2 in. (92 mm x 63 mm) image size
Purchased, 1986
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax27681

Sitterback to top

Mary Anne ('Fanny') Stirling (née Hehl, later Lady Gregory) (1813-1895), Actress. Sitter in 16 portraits.

Artistback to top

John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 507 portraits.

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Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 224 Regent Street, London)

Portrait setback to top

Celebrities of the London Stage: photographs by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, published 1864-65

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Events of 1864back to top

Current affairs

First of the Contagious Diseases Act. These acts allowed for the arrest, medical inspection and confinement of any woman suspected of being a prostitute in the port towns. Following huge public outcry over their discrimination against women, notably led by Josephine Butler, leader of the Ladies' National Association, the acts were eventually repealed.
Octavia Hill starts work on slums, and the International Working Men's Association is founded in London.

Art and science

The Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell presents his discoveries in the field of electromagnetics to the Royal Society. His paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field expresses the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in unified fashion. Maxwell's equations, as his rules came to be known, helped create modern physics, laying the foundation for future work in special relativity and quantum mechanics.

International

Austria and Prussia combine forces to seize Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.
Britain cedes Corfu, acquired from France in the Second Treaty of Paris (1815) to Greece. Although Britain had vigorously suppressed an uprising in 1849 in Cephalonia aiming to restore Iolian islands, the government changed policy throughout the 1850s and 60s.

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