Henry, Lord Brougham, statesman : stereoscopic portrait. Edinburgh, 1856-57.

A$400 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 73 x 63 mm (arched-top format), on yellow card mount 83 x 173 mm, with blind stamp of Lennie / 46 Princes St. / Edinburgh ; verso with facsimile signature of the sitter Henry Brougham , and with the original Scots-Australian owner s name in pencil McMillan ; the albumen prints have excellent clarity and tonal range, and are in very good condition (a light surface mark on the right-hand image); the mount is clean. A rare early photographic portrait of Edinburgh-born statesman, Henry Peter Brougham, later 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, (1778-1868), who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and played a prominent role in the passing the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Slavery Abolition Act. Brougham was also a Fellow of the Royal Society, having studied science and mathematics at the University of Edinburgh where he was regarded as something of a prodigy prior to undertaking law, and for many years he was a major contributor of scientific (as well as political) papers to the Edinburgh Review . The photograph was taken by pioneer Scottish photographer John Moffat (1819-1894) in his studio at 19 Princes Street, Edinburgh, in 1856-57, and was sold by Moffat s neighbour, the optician John Lennie, whose business premises were at 46 Princes Street from 1856. (John Lennie joined the Photographic Society of Scotland in 1856 and joined Edinburgh Photographic Society in 1861). Coincidentally, Brougham s first scientific paper read before

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