T. WEBSTER, R.A.

T. WEBSTER, R.A.

Studio portrait of Thomas Webster

1884

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London publisher

D. Appleton & Co., New York publisher

T. Webster, RA, albumen print, approx. 6½ x 8½ in., by Joseph Park Mayall (1839-1922), 1883

F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J.P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by phototengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), n.p.

Webster, Thomas (1800-1886), English painter

March 1884

Photograph copyrighted February 21, 1884. Copyright owner and author of photograph, Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London (Public Records, The National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/367/83).

Copyright description: "'Photograph of Mr J.[sic] Webster R.A. & portion of exterior of his house at Cranbrook, Kent.' Subject sits on chair in doorway of porch surrounded by climbing plants."

Webster is seated in a wooden chair in the center of the photogravure outside his home in Cranbrook, Kent. He is surrounded by the various plants in his garden, flanked by the tall, white-framed windows of the entryway.

Jeremy Maas, The Victorian Art World in Photographs (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1984), 56.

“Reviews: ‘Artists at Home.’” The Derby Mercury (Derby, England), issue 8828, March 26, 1884. "The four plates in the part (No. 1) now before us represent Sir Frederic Leighton, Mr. W. C. Marshall, Mr. T. Webster, and Mr. V. C. Prinsep, in their workrooms, and in their habits as they live there. The portraits of the artists are admirable as likenesses, and the details of the studios themselves are admirably brought out."

The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art.

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Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts and Rare Books Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Omeka record contributed by Hilleary Gramling.

September 26, 2016

November 15, 2016
November 21, 2016, by LM
November 28, 2016, by HG
January 20, 2017, by LM

Photoengraving on copper.

16.5 cm h x 21.5 cm w
6.5 in h x 8.5i n w

27.5 cm h x 37 cm w
11 in h x 14.5 in w

(Printed on the mount beneath the image) J P Mayall Photo | London published by Sampson and Low Marston Searl & Rivington 188 Fleet St. | Park Lane Studio London | T.WEBSTER R.A. | Copyright