Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc.
Men of Mark is a Victorian photographic gallery published in London in 1876 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, with portraits by Lock and Whitfield and commentary by Thompson Cooper, aimed at a general reading public interested in prominent public men. Its pictures are sepia albumen studio portraits of bearded, bald and grey-haired gentlemen in dark coats, each set in an oval window with a pale embossed mount. A designer could draw on the oval vignette framing, the warm brown tones and the formal Victorian frock-coat portrait conventions.
