Historic Portraits


	Historic Portraits
JohnWaterman
7-31-2007 3:22 PM
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history, photography, portraits, wilfrid scawen blunt, leo tolstoy, anne jemima clough, george bernard shaw, w. b. yeats, james joyce
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8-1-2007 8:34 AM
haraya
The daguerreotype. Great find, JW!
8-1-2007 8:35 AM
JohnWaterman
Of the 3 beards on show, I'd have to vote for Tolstoy
8-1-2007 8:43 AM
haraya
Tolstoy looks like a kung fu master. GB Shaw's portrait is just plain creepy. Voting for Joyce, hehe. Not as fierce as Tolstoy's but charming.
8-1-2007 9:08 AM
Deepti
wow...nice find...
8-1-2007 9:10 AM
JohnWaterman
Always worth a delve into The British Library
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/publiceye.html">In the early years of photography, to sit for one's portrait was for most an expensive and uncomfortable experience, but by the 1860s it had become cheaply available to all levels of society, particularly in the popular formats of the carte de visite and later the cabinet portrait</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/publiceye.html">the market for portrait photography by this time formed the commercial foundation of the medium and would continue to do so well into the twentieth century.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/publiceye.html">This selection is taken from the British Library's Department of Manuscripts, which holds an extensive collection of photographic portraits of some of the most important cultural figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/publiceye.html"><H3>Wilfrid Scawen Blunt<EM>, 1860s</EM> </H3></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); 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Anne Jemima Clough, 1890</H3></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/enlarged/ajcloughlge.html" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/enlarged/ajcloughlge.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bl.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/enlarged/ajcloughlge.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bl.uk/img/B1C2DCDE-5C51-4757-BAC5-CE67741E1B9B" alt="Portrait of Anne Jemima Clough" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/publiceye.html" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/publiceye.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bl.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/publiceye.html"><H3>George Bernard Shaw, 1900s</H3></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/enlarged/gbshawlge.html" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/enlarged/gbshawlge.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bl.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/enlarged/gbshawlge.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bl.uk/img/BD36F7C8-5745-40CB-9336-D77928C0F37A" alt="Portrait of George Bernard Shaw" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/publiceye.html" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/publiceye.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bl.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/publiceye.html"><H3>W. B. Yeats, c.1910
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James Joyce, 1925</H3></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/enlarged/jjoycelge.html" href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/enlarged/jjoycelge.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bl.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/enlarged/jjoycelge.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bl.uk/img/A7A260E9-550B-42D7-B541-8A6DAF548E15" alt="Portrait of James Joyce" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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