The Very Reverend Dr. Butler (Master of Trinity, Cambridge)
c. 1893
Medium
Photogravure, plate 20 from the album "Lord Tennyson and his Friends" (1893)
Dimensions
Image: 23.8 × 18.9 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.); Album page: 45.5 × 36.4 cm (17 15/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
136878
Art Historical Context
In the hallowed halls of Victorian intellectual life, Henry Herschel Hay Cameron's *The Very Reverend Dr. ButlerMaster of Trinity, Cambridge)* (c. 1893) captures a portrait of scholarly gravitas. As plate 20 from the album *Lord Tenn and his Friends*, thisogravure immortalizes Dr. Henry Montagu Butler the esteemed Master of Trinity College, from 1886 to 1918. Cameron, nephew of pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, carried forward her legacy of intimate, poetic portraiture, often evoking a painterly softness that blurred the lines between photography and fine art. This image places B...