Carte de visite, portrait of a man in a woolen suit

 

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

Reference: DD1/E/48

Subseries: A.D [Alice Dolan] Album

Level of Description: Item

Format: Photograph

Materials and Techniques:

Extent: 1 

Creator: MacMahon & Co. [Photographers]

Published/Created: [ca. 1865-1898]

Place of Origin: Liverpool

Physical Description:

Marks & Inscriptions: [Front] MacMahon & Co. Liverpool [Back] Artists & Photographers MacMahon & Co. 2 Shaw Street Liverpool. Corner of Brunswick Road. Negatives kept, Copies can always be had. Enlargements made and painted in the most artistic style.

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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