Europe • Great Britain | Photography by Lady Elizabeth Eastlake is published in the London Quarterly Review. |
Europe • Great Britain
| Queen Victoria purchases the allegorical photomontage The Two Ways of Life by Oscar Gustave Rejlander at the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester. [Read about] |
North America • USA
| Alexander Beckers of New York City patents a stereo-viewer with a revolving mechanism which allows multiple views of different types to be inspected sequentially by turning a knob. (7 April 1857) |