Emblems of Durability: Tattoos, preserves and photographs

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Notes

¹ See on the case in detail: Woodruff (1957).

² That a member of the upper class would have a tattoo was in itself unusual. According to several witnesses, Roger Tichborne had acquired the emblems from a sailor in Brittany while a boy, and had his initials later inscribed in what was like an act of swearing blood brothership when he and a friend tattooed each other with (as is highlighted by Taylor) the same needles. See James Bradley's article ‘Body Commodification? Class and Tattoos in Victorian Britain’ (Bradley 2000), in particular pp. 142–143 on the Tichborne case.

³See the interview with Ulay in McEvilley (1994).