Carte de visite, portrait of a lady with cropped hair

Title: Carte de visite, portrait of a lady with cropped hair

Reference: DD1/E/29

Subseries: A.D [Alice Dolan] Album

Level of Description: Item

Format: Photograph

Materials & Techniques:

Extent: 1 

Creator: Weston bros. [Photographers]

Published/Created: [ca. 1865-1898]

Place of Origins: Drogheda

Physical Description:

Marks & Inscription: [Front] Weston Bros. Drogheda. [Back] Specialite Instantaneous Portraiture of Young Children. Portrait and Landscape Photographers. Weston Bros. 8 Lawrence St. Drogheda.

Summary: The carte de visite was patented in 1854 by the French photographer 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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