Artist

Worthly Type

Worthly Type is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

You’ll find Worthly Type tucked between the daguerreotypes and the cabinet cards, the guy who shot every actor who ever played Hamlet in a waistcoat. He didn’t care about the play, only the posture, the way a raised eyebrow looked in silver on a glass plate. That’s why every “Guy Little Theatrical Photograph” feels like a backstage secret: you’re staring at the exact moment a fake beard met a real gaslight.

Slide one off the shelf and you’re holding a slice of Victorian dressing-room gossip you can still read in the reflected light.

Works by Worthly Type

Collections represented

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