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Lord Macaulay Maull & Polyblank (British, 1854-1865 (active))

Title
Lord Macaulay
Artist
Maull & Polyblank (British, 1854-1865 (active))
Publication
The Illustrated London News
Date
1860 plate (1856 negative)
Process
Engraving (from photograph)
Image Size
18.7 cm x 14 cm

This portrait by The London commercial photographers Maull & Polyblank was published often and in a variety of processes. Comparing examples from different reproductive media offer insight into the syntactical variations each process evoked.

Macaulay was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848.