1-273-665 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Tom Taylor, dramatist and critic, 1881. Taylor (1817-1880) was a popular Victorian playwright who wrote some 70 plays in all. His best-known works are probably 'The Dead Heart' (1859), 'The Ticket-of-Leave Man' (1863), and 'Our American Cousin' (1858), the play that President Abraham Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated in 1865. 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. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).