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Pope Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti)

2 of 7 portraits of Pope Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti)

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, after Unknown artist
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s-1870s
3 1/4 in. x 2 1/4 in. (84 mm x 56 mm) image size
acquired, 1963
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax46223

Sitterback to top

Pope Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti) (1792-1878), Pope 1846-78. Sitter in 7 portraits.

Artistsback to top

London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company (active 1854-1922), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 952 portraits.
Unknown artist, Artist. Artist or producer associated with 6556 portraits.

Portrait setback to top

London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company cartes-de-visite, 1850s-80s

Subject/Themeback to top

Religion, faith and spirituality

Events of 1860back to top

Current affairs

An early feminist movement, The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women is founded by Adelaide Anne Proctor, Emily Faithfull, Helen Blackburn, Bessie Parks, Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon, and Jessie Boucherett.
The Florence Nightingale Training School for Nurses opens at St Thomas's Hospital, in London, funded from the testimonial fund collected for Nightingale following her war services, and helping to establish nursing as a profession.

Art and science

William Morris and new wife Jane Burden move into the Red House, near Bexleyheath, Kent. The house, designed by Philip Webb, represents Morris's principle in interior design, that no object should be in a house that is not beautiful.
Ford Madox Brown paints The Last of England, showing a boat of emigrants leaving England under desperate circumstances, inspired by the emigration of the Pre-Raphaelite Thomas Woolner to Australia in 1852.

International

Italian unification continues as the Treaty of Turin brings much of Northern Italy under nationalist leader Cavour's control, who cedes Savoy and Nice to France. Garibaldi siezes the opportunity to invade Marsala in Sicily with his army of 1,000 redshirts, proclaiming himself dictator in the name of Victor Emmanuel II.
Republican Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the US, with only 39% of the popular vote.

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