In 1853, a Liverpool photographer achieved what seemed impossible at the time. He shrunk a 680-letter memorial plaque to the ...

STRIKING portraits from the Victorian era have been brought to life thanks to vivid 21st century colourisation. The fascinating pictures show solemn-looking children, a teenage couple and a dapper … ...

The dominant photographic print at this time was called the albumen silver print, and was produced by coating paper with a mixture of egg whites and salt, and dipping it into silver nitrate.

In fact, touching up photos was common back in the day. Photographers made permanent edits on the plates themselves so that all prints would look brighter and more appealing.

Striking Victorian portraits have been brought into the 21st century in vivid colour. The series of stunning photographs show a young couple dressed in opulent clothing, teenage girls with their ...

Among the 20,000-odd prints she donated to the Library of Congress in 1947—including not only her portraiture, but also a substantial body of photojournalism—are the two self-portraits on ...

Eminent VictoriansBy A.N. WilsonNorton, 240 pages, $25Lytton Strachey, author of the original ”Eminent Victorians,” came to bury the Victorians, not to praise them. He succeeded brilliantly.

THESE exquisite and intricate plant portraits by photographer William Arnold are a nod to the Victorian era of botany, as well as to the rural beauty tucked away in English hedgerows and kerbsides ...

RARE original prints of images taken in Oxford by Victorian photographer Henry Taunt are on display in the city. More than 130 pictures from the 1850s to 1900s by Taunt and other early ...