Carte de visite, portrait of a man in a suit

 

Title: Carte de visite, portrait of a man in a suit

Reference: DD1/E/8

Subseries: A.D [Alice Dolan] Album

Level of Description: Item

Format: Photograph

Materials & Techniques:

Extent: 1 

Creator: Lauder bros. [Photographers]

Published/Created: [ca. 1865-1881]

Place of Origin: Dublin

Physical Description:

Marks & Inscriptions: [Front] Lauder bros. Dublin. Permanent Photography. Patent Chromotype. [Back] Children photographed instantanteously. Artists & photographers, Lauder bros. Dublin. 32 Westmoreland Str. Photographs enlarged to life size and finished in oils and crayons. Additional copies may be had by sending name and number. No. 8053.

Summary: The carte de visite was patented in 1854 by the French photogrpaher André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, and soon became the most common type of photograph. Between four and six miniature portraits could be taken on one glass plate negative. Sitters then chose their favourites, which were printed, cut out and mounted onto calling cards. It was fashionable to exchange and collect images of family, friends, royalty and celebrities, into specially designed albums.

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