Samuel Raybone

I am a historian of art and visual cultures, specialising in Impressionist painting; early photography; and ephemera (transient, disposable images like postage stamps, restaurant menus, and trade cards).

My present research examines intersections of class, disability, and masculinity in nineteenth-century medical photography; Impressionism, collecting practices, and nation-building in Wales; and ephemera as evidence for an alternative aesthetics of modernity