Portraits of Yorkshire worthies : selected from the National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, 1868
A photographic reproduction album published in London in 1869 by Cundall and Fleming, compiled by Edward Hailstone from the 1868 National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, presenting selected portraits of Yorkshire notables for an art-loving public. The plates are sepia photographs of seventeenth-century oil portraits, each mounted on a cream card border, showing half-length and full-length sitters in dark dress against shadowy backgrounds, with white falling collars and lace ruffs; a designer might take their dark, low-key lighting and formal period costume as reference for tonal portrait compositions.
