Portraits of Yorkshire worthies : selected from the National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, 1868
Portraits of Yorkshire worthies is a London photographic album of 1869, compiled by Edward Hailstone from the 1868 National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, for a readership interested in art and painting. Its plates photograph older oil portraits of men, shown as dark, tonal reproductions on cream mounts, with powdered wigs, dark coats and white linen collars against shadowed backgrounds. A designer might take from them the restrained palette of sepia-brown tones, the single figure placed off-centre, and the mounted-plate layout with generous margins.
