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AFTER JOHN JABEZ EDWIN MAYALL (1813-1901)

Colonel Thomas Myddelton Biddulph (1809-78)

1887 copy after an original of July 1856

Carbon print | 20.0 x 15.8 cm (image) | RCIN 2906651

Photograph of a head and shoulders length portrait of Colonel Thomas Biddulph (1813-1901), facing towards the viewer. Photograph is a vignette.

  • Creator(s)

    After John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901) (photographer)

    Hughes & Mullins (1883-1917) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    General Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph (1809-78)

  • 20.0 x 15.8 cm (image)

    28.4 x 23.0 cm (page dimensions)

    29.5 x 24.5 x 6.0 cm (album)

  • Colonel Thomas Biddulph, July 1856 [Photographic Portraits Vol.2/60 1852-1859]

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
        • albums
          • photograph albums
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