Artist

Thomas Houseworth

Thomas Houseworth is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

We don’t know much about Thomas Houseworth—no exact birth or death dates, no grand biographies. But he was there, camera in hand, in late 1800s San Francisco, snapping actors in costume at the moment they became someone else. You can almost hear the gasp of the crowd when the curtain rose. His photo *Guy Little Theatrical Photograph* catches one of those hushed, electric seconds—pose sharp, lights dim, story about to unfold. That quiet drama is why he’s here. Tap on that image and step backstage to see how performance shapes truth.

Works by Thomas Houseworth

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert 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.

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.