ArtistsJohn Jabez Edwin Mayall
John Jabez Edwin Mayall

John Jabez Edwin Mayall

British, 1813
Philadelphia
Photography
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3
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40
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Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Photography 1839�1937
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1937
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John Jabez Edwin Paisley Mayall was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria. He also captured other famous people such as Charles Dickens and Karl Marx. His photograph of "Sergeant Dawson and his daughter" has been considered one of the most important photographs in history.

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Onversneden proefvel van cartes-de-visite-portretten (1861)
Rijksmuseum
Onversneden proefvel van cartes-de-visite-portretten (1861)
Rijksmuseum
Portret van een lachend meisje, Edith Abadam (?) (c. 1850 - c. 1865)
Rijksmuseum
Portret van drie kinderen (ca. 1850 - ca. 1865)
Rijksmuseum
James Buchanan (1856)
Smithsonian Institution
George Bancroft (c. 1847)
Smithsonian Institution
Untitled (Portrait of a Man at a 3/4 Angle) (1845)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Art Institute of Chicago
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