Marianne Margaret Egerton (née Compton), Viscountess Alford ('Lady Marian Alford')

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Marianne Margaret Egerton (née Compton), Viscountess Alford ('Lady Marian Alford')

by George Zobel, after Thomas Brooker
mezzotint, 1863
28 1/2 in. x 18 3/4 in. (723 mm x 477 mm) plate size; 30 1/4 in. x 19 1/8 in. (767 mm x 486 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D49387

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Artistsback to top

  • Thomas Brooker (active 1855-1879), Printer. Artist or producer associated with 15 portraits.
  • George Zobel (1810-1881), Printmaker. Artist or producer associated with 55 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG D49388: Marianne Margaret Egerton (née Compton), Viscountess Alford ('Lady Marian Alford') (from same plate)

Events of 1863back to top

Current affairs

The opening of the world's first underground railway, with the Metropolitan Railway running trains between Bishop's Street, Padington and Farringdon. Work had begun in 1860, using the 'cut-and-cover' method of construction. The Metropolitan line inspired the construction of other underground railways - the Parisian 'Metro' took its name from the line.
The Football Association is founded.

Art and science

Julia Margaret Cameron takes up photography, taking portraits of some of the most celebrated figures of the day, with her romantic style capturing the sense of nostalgia and longing that characterised the age.
Kingsley's Water Babies; A Fairy Tale for Children is published, the hugely popular tale of drowned chimney sweep Tom's moral education in the river world of the water babies. It inspired the 1978 film starring James Mason.

International

At an international conference, the Geneva Public Welfare Society calls on the sixteen nations present to form voluntary units to help the wartime wounded. The society, comprised of five Swiss citizens and led by Henri Dunant, who had been deeply affected by the casualties he had witnessed at the Battle of Solferino, became the National Red Cross Societies, adopting the emblem of a red cross on white background.

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