Genre:

Reportage, Spoof; Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Subjects:

Photography, Religious Authority, Language

    Reports on the photographic interests of the new Bishop of Gloucester, William Thomson, by quoting Anthony A Cooper (7th Earl of Shaftesbury) as asserting that he had appointed 'an ecclesiastic of the decided school, and in fact, [...] all his views are Positives'. The illustration shows a portly gentleman being photographed.