Artist
Mayall
Mayall is an artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
John Jabez Mayall carried a camera like a pen—he treated portraits like candid jokes. In 1857 he snapped Queen Victoria in a moment most photos of royalty miss: not stiff, but blinking into sunlight. Because he hand-colored each print, the queen’s lace looks pinkish and her face scuffed with real light. Find his “H Beard Print Collection” in the app and zoom in; every dot of ink feels like a fingerprint left on glass.
Works by Mayall
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.