Carte de Viste, young Victorian woman

Title: Carte de visite, young Victorian woman.

Reference: DD1/A/17

Subseries: Black embossed Album

Level of Description: Item

Format: Photograph

Materials & Techniques:

Extent: 1 

Published/Created: [ca. 1893]

Creator: Gustav Mullins [photographer]

Place of Origin: Ryde, Isle of Wight.

Physical Description: Small portrait of a lady [unknown]. She wears a voluminous dark dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves and a short cropped hairstyle. 

Marks & Inscriptions: Mullins, Ryde, I.W.

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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