Archibald Campbell Tait
3 of 36 portraits of Archibald Campbell Tait
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Archibald Campbell Tait
by Unknown artist
plaster cast of death-mask, after 1882
13 1/2 in. (343 mm)
Given by Archbishop Davidson, 1929
Primary Collection
NPG 2352
Sitterback to top
- Archibald Campbell Tait (1811-1882), Archbishop of Canterbury. Sitter in 36 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 603
Events of 1882back to top
Current affairs
The Ashes Test cricket series is born. The series gets its name from a satirical obituary published in the English newspaper The Sporting Times, stating that English cricket had died and its cremated body was being taken back to Australia, after England, with batsmen W. G. Grace and Charles Studd, lost the first home match to Australia at the Oval.The Married Women's Property Act is passed, securing equal property rights between married couples.
Art and science
Eadweard Muybridge, British photographer, exhibits his images of animal and human motion, captured with his 'zoopraxiscope', a motion-picture machine recreating movement by displaying individual photographs in rapid succession, at the Royal Academy and Royal Institution. His studies and inventions contributed to the development of motion pictures, with E.J. Marey and the Lumiere brothers acknowledging his impact.International
The Zioinist movement begins, with the first wave of Jewish immigrants to Palestine, at this time part of the Ottoman empire. The Jewish people were in Diaspora, spread across the world, and Palestine, the place of Jewish origin but now also occupied by Muslims and Christians, seemed a logical place for a settlement.Comments back to top
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