[Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay]
[Antoine Claudet and anonymous artist]
Hand-coloured photograph, sheet 225 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Taped into oval mount. With frame backboard bearing Claudet's label, inscription 'Lord Macaulay Photograph finished in Black by A. Claudet' and label of framer Hugh Paton.
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59), historian, essayist and poet. Photograph by Antoine Claudet coloured by hand. Claudet (1797-1767) was born in France and originally moved to England to open a glass warehouse before moving into photography shortly after Daguerre's process became public in 1839. By the 1850s Claudet was one of the most fashionable photographers in London: he was awarded a Council Medal at the 1851 Great Exhibition and established his Temple of Photography at 107 Regent Street (for which a label is attached to this print) the same year.
[Ref: 44787] £180.00
Hand-coloured photograph, sheet 225 x 190mm (8¾ x 7½"). Taped into oval mount. With frame backboard bearing Claudet's label, inscription 'Lord Macaulay Photograph finished in Black by A. Claudet' and label of framer Hugh Paton.
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59), historian, essayist and poet. Photograph by Antoine Claudet coloured by hand. Claudet (1797-1767) was born in France and originally moved to England to open a glass warehouse before moving into photography shortly after Daguerre's process became public in 1839. By the 1850s Claudet was one of the most fashionable photographers in London: he was awarded a Council Medal at the 1851 Great Exhibition and established his Temple of Photography at 107 Regent Street (for which a label is attached to this print) the same year.
[Ref: 44787] £180.00