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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableThe British Empire, that famous empire where the sun never set, as the British in the 19th and early 20th centuries liked to describe it - here we see some of its many facets. The mysterious art of photography originally came from France, the country of the arch-enemy, but a significant improvement was achieved in 1840 by William Henry Fox Talbot, a scientifically gifted son of a distinguished family of the English upper class. As the scion of a wealthy family, the young Talbot was in the fortunate position of being able to devote himself entirely to his private studies of chemistry and physics. With success! The photographic pioneer finally succeeded in developing a process that made it possible to reproduce the image by making prints from the negative. This negative-positive process became the fundamental photographic technique. For a long time, it had been overshadowed by the daguerreotype, which had been known since 1839. This technically more complex process produced very beautiful, detailed images, but forced the photographer to handle highly toxic mercury and cyanide vapors.
But no danger could stop the triumph of the new art of photography through the world.
In the category "English photographers" are the photographs of famous people such as Queen Victoria or Empress Frederick-celebrities of their time-but also unknown people, solemn occasions, cathedrals, palaces, pyramids, as well as the slums of London with their oppressive poverty or pictures from the Boer War. The invention of photography made it possible for the first time that not only the rich could leave a picture of themselves to posterity. Poorer people could now also afford to have a portrait taken of themselves or their family. In those early years, being photographed was still a serious matter and the pictures we have kept from that time reflect that seriousness, that solemnity. It is what makes the photographs so peculiarly appealing to many. A portrait photograph in the 19th century was always something undertaken with an eye to the future absence of the sitter; absence through death. These were years of high infant mortality, the horrors of tuberculosis and other incurable diseases. That is why only a few people were granted to reach a stately old age. People longed for something lasting, and photography now provided that for everyone. But the new art also offered the possibility of documenting what had previously been reserved for those who could draw or paint well. The eye of the camera, however, was incorruptible and relentless, and therefore sometimes feared. Many a painter had gained fame and loyal customers by flattering his clients and depicting them more beautifully than they really were. The sensory organ of flesh and blood was corruptible, the artificial eye of the camera was not. But in the end, it's the same here as with everything else: beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and beautiful is everything that is looked at with love.
The British Empire, that famous empire where the sun never set, as the British in the 19th and early 20th centuries liked to describe it - here we see some of its many facets. The mysterious art of photography originally came from France, the country of the arch-enemy, but a significant improvement was achieved in 1840 by William Henry Fox Talbot, a scientifically gifted son of a distinguished family of the English upper class. As the scion of a wealthy family, the young Talbot was in the fortunate position of being able to devote himself entirely to his private studies of chemistry and physics. With success! The photographic pioneer finally succeeded in developing a process that made it possible to reproduce the image by making prints from the negative. This negative-positive process became the fundamental photographic technique. For a long time, it had been overshadowed by the daguerreotype, which had been known since 1839. This technically more complex process produced very beautiful, detailed images, but forced the photographer to handle highly toxic mercury and cyanide vapors.
But no danger could stop the triumph of the new art of photography through the world.
In the category "English photographers" are the photographs of famous people such as Queen Victoria or Empress Frederick-celebrities of their time-but also unknown people, solemn occasions, cathedrals, palaces, pyramids, as well as the slums of London with their oppressive poverty or pictures from the Boer War. The invention of photography made it possible for the first time that not only the rich could leave a picture of themselves to posterity. Poorer people could now also afford to have a portrait taken of themselves or their family. In those early years, being photographed was still a serious matter and the pictures we have kept from that time reflect that seriousness, that solemnity. It is what makes the photographs so peculiarly appealing to many. A portrait photograph in the 19th century was always something undertaken with an eye to the future absence of the sitter; absence through death. These were years of high infant mortality, the horrors of tuberculosis and other incurable diseases. That is why only a few people were granted to reach a stately old age. People longed for something lasting, and photography now provided that for everyone. But the new art also offered the possibility of documenting what had previously been reserved for those who could draw or paint well. The eye of the camera, however, was incorruptible and relentless, and therefore sometimes feared. Many a painter had gained fame and loyal customers by flattering his clients and depicting them more beautifully than they really were. The sensory organ of flesh and blood was corruptible, the artificial eye of the camera was not. But in the end, it's the same here as with everything else: beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and beautiful is everything that is looked at with love.
.jpg "View of the Pyramids, Egypt, 1893 by English Photographer")
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 wearing an overcoat with a fur collar bought for his trip to America 1881 - (MeisterDrucke-43075).jpg "Portrait of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Wearing an Overcoat with a Fur Collar Bought for His Trip to America, 1881 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The Cairo Conference, 1921 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "RMS Titanic departing from Southampton on her maiden voyage, April 5, 1912 by English Photographer")
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 (marble) - (MeisterDrucke-326321).jpg "Bust of Marcus Aurelius by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Horse-drawn Carriage Outside 24 Gloucester Square, Hyde Park, London by English Photographer")
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.jpg "King George V having lunch in the Chitwan Valley during a Tiger Shoot, 1911 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The First Prime Minister of the Australian Commonwealth, the Honourable Edmund Barton, QC by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Pasta drying in the streets, Naples, 1897 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Frank Hurley by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Major General Sir Luke O")
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.jpg "Alice Keppel with Her Daughter Violet Trefusius, 1905 by English Photographer")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1050546).jpg "Mrs Laura Henderson, owner of the Windmill Theatre, Piccadilly, London by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Titanic ready for her maiden voyage, 02 April 1912 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "RMS Titanic nearing launch, 05 January 1911 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Man smoking opium, from Illustrations of China and its people by J. Thompson by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Anna Pavlova with her pet swan Jack by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The Indian Tour - King Edward VIII Tiger Shooting in Nepal, 1921 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Madame Blavatsky by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Child Poverty, London by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The Crisis in Constantinople, the Ambassadors of the Great Powers by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The University, Glasgow by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Rosendale Road School: cricket team by English Photographer")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-504870).jpg "Avenue of Palms, Botanical Gardens, Calcutta by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Napoleon III by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Napoleon III by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The Forthcoming Somaliland Expedition, Campaigning Scenes on the Line of Operations by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The Late Miss Florence Marryat by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Front, Balliol College, Oxford by English Photographer")
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![[Japanese] Girls bathing, Studio tableau of three half-naked young Japanese women, posed in and around a circular wooden bath tub by English Photographer](/kunstwerke/300px/English_Photographer_-_Japanese_Girls_bathing_Studio_tableau_of_three_half-naked_young_Japanese_women_p_-_(MeisterDrucke-1351761).jpg "[Japanese] Girls bathing, Studio tableau of three half-naked young Japanese women, posed in and around a circular wooden bath tub by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Four of the five sons of King George V, from left to right, Prince George, Duke of Kent, King Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, Prince Albert, Duke of York, later King George VI, Prince Henry, Duke by English Photographer")
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![[Japanese] Girls bathing, Half-length right profile portrait of a naked young woman by English Photographer](/kunstwerke/300px/English_Photographer_-_Japanese_Girls_bathing_Half-length_right_profile_portrait_of_a_naked_young_woman_-_(MeisterDrucke-1351762).jpg "[Japanese] Girls bathing, Half-length right profile portrait of a naked young woman by English Photographer")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-661110).jpg "Young Girl Posing with Flowers by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Queen Victoria, Empress of India and Abdul Karim The Munshi, c.1894 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "RMS Titanic during fitting out, 01 January 1912 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "RMS Titanic being moved out of drydock to allow her sister ship, RMS Olympic, to have a propeller replaced, March 6, 1912 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Edward John Smith, ships captain of the Titanic by English Photographer")
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 1840s-50s (daguerreotype) - (MeisterDrucke-116582).jpg "Sarah Faraday, wife of Michael Faraday by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Miss Selina Fox, MB, BS, First Woman Graduate in Medicine of Durham by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The Tomb of Jane Austen in Winchester Cathedral by English Photographer")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1321934).jpg "Portrait of Karl Marx in a Blue Suit by English Photographer")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1485057).jpg "Nudist art: Maid of Athens by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Women working in a factory by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Pall Mall, London, c 1900 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Arthur Henry Rostron, Captain of RMS Carpathia, Lord Mersey, and Edward John Smith, Captain of the Titanic by English Photographer")
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.jpg "First Class Lounge, RMS Titanic, 04 January 1912 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Marriage of the Queens Eldest Great-Granddaughter, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, to Prince Henry XXX of Reuss, the Bride and Bridegroom leaving the Church after the Ceremony by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Japanese woman sleeping, Studio portrait of a young Japanese woman sleeping, one breast exposed and with her head resting on a wooden pillow by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Mahatma Gandhi arrives in London, England in 1931 with his disciple, Madeleine Slade, and his two goats, from The Story of Twenty Five Years, published 1935 by English Photographer")
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 c1899 (black and white photograph) - (MeisterDrucke-39442).jpg "Queen Victoria (1819-1901) c.1899 by English Photographer")
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 as a young man on board a ship - (MeisterDrucke-326131).jpg "Winston Churchill (1874-1965) as a young man on board a ship by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The onboard gym on the Titanic showing the rowing machines and exercise bikes, 1912 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Prince Michael of Kent and Prince William of Gloucester, page boys at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, 1947 by English Photographer")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-325747).jpg "Geishas Bathing, c.1880s by English Photographer")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-330839).jpg "Boys bathing in the park, Clapham 1926 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The Titanic")
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.jpg "The Oak of Mamre; Abraham")
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.jpg "The Discovery of the Grave of Johann Sebastian Bach by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Thomas Andrews, 1912 by English Photographer")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1087699).jpg "The Yalta Conference, February 1945 by English Photographer")
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 The authorised Diamond Jubilee photograph 1897 - (MeisterDrucke-63639).jpg "Queen Victoria The Authorised Diamond Jubilee Photograph, 1897 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "A Young King Edward VIII Drilling His Siblings, the Duke of York and the Princess Royal, c.1899 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The Floods in Rome, the Pantheon during the Inundation by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Slum in Victorian London by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Edward, Prince of Wales and Mary, Princess Royal by English Photographer")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-346704).jpg "A Traveling Photographer, 19th Century by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Jennie Jerome, Later Lady Randolph Churchill, with Her Mother and Sisters by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Alice Keppel and Her Husband George, 1909 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Rocky Marciano, heavyweight boxing champion of the world, unbeaten in forty-eight professional fights by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Virginia Woolf, with Her Mother Julia, 1884 by English Photographer")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1431308).jpg "Rope and seal intact to Tutankhamen")
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.jpg "The Campo dei Fiori Medal, with Portrait of Christ, presented to the Pope by English Photographer")
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 and his wife Clementine Og - (MeisterDrucke-325090).jpg "Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and his wife, Clementine Ogilvy, at the funeral of T. E Lawrence (1888-1935) by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Aston Villa Football Team, 1894 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Actor James Fox wearing a jacket by Mr Fish by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Jumbo the Elephant at London Zoo, 1870s by English Photographer")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1418282).jpg "Girl of the Rodiya Caste in Sri Lanka by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Arrest of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst in Victoria Street, 13th February 1908 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Portrait of Winston Churchill, 1942-45 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "RMS Titanic: 1st Class Dining Saloon on D-Deck, 1912 by English Photographer")
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_President_Truman_(1884-1972)_and_Joseph_Stalin_(18_-_(MeisterDrucke-1082711).jpg "Winston Churchill, President Truman, and Joseph Stalin shaking hands at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The Late Rustem Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador in London by English Photographer")
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_as_a_barrister_in_South_Africa_c1900_-_(MeisterDrucke-328216).jpg "Mahatma Gandhi as a barrister in South Africa, c.1900 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Stateroom B-58 onboard the Titanic, decorated in Louis XVI style, 1912 by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Queen Victoria, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna, her daughter Olga Nikolaevna and Albert, Prince of Wales photographed at Balmoral by English Photographer")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-37900).jpg "Fanny Stevenson, Wife of Robert Louis Stevenson by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Tram pulled by horses, on the way to Kut by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The Late Sir Charles Oppenheimer, British Consul-General at Frankfort-on-Main by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicine by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The late Sir Francis Cook, Baronet, Viscount of Montserrat, in Portugal by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Japanese woman sleeping, Three-quarter length studio portrait by English Photographer")
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.jpg "RMS Titanic of the White Star Line by English Photographer")
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.jpg "Peeping Tom by English Photographer")
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.jpg "The Statue of Queen Victoria at Calcutta, Unveiled by the Viceroy of India, 19 March by English Photographer")
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 at the age of sixty-six c1885 - (MeisterDrucke-96006).jpg "Queen Victoria at the Age of Sixty-Six by English Photographer")
.jpg "Madame Sarah Bernhardt as Theodora by English Photographer")
.jpg "RMS Titanic being moved out of drydock to allow her sister ship, RMS Olympic, to have a propeller replaced, March 6, 1912 by English Photographer")
.jpg "The Big Three at the Yalta Conference: Prime Minister Churchill, President Roosevelt, and Generalissimus Stalin, February 1945 by English Photographer")