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Sir Henry Cole, KCB, British designer, civil servant and writer, 1877.Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Sir Henry Cole, KCB, British designer, civil servant and writer, 1877. Cole (1808-1882) assisted Rowland Hill in designing the world's first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, and in 1843 published the first Christmas card. He assisted Prince Albert with the planning of the 1851 Great Exhibition and was the founding Director of the South Kensington Museum, renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1899.. From 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. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (London, 1876-1883).
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AR941252
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Image
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Public
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3757px × 4705px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
author
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Britain
British
Christianity
Christmas
CHRISTMAS CARD
Civil Servant
COLE
concept
country
designer
England
English
event
FIRST
Great Exhibition 1851
HENRY
Henry Cole
Inventor
JOB
LOCATION
Lock &
Lock & Whitfield
Male
Man
Men
Monochrome
MUSEUM
Museum of Ornamental Art
NINETEENTH CENTURY
OCCUPATION
Penny Black
People
Photograph
Portrait
Print Collector3
PROFESSION
religion
Religious
Science
Sir Henry Cole
Stamp
The Print Collector
V&A
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
Whitfield
Writer