Carte de visite, portrait of a man with glasses
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Reference: DD1/E/69
Subseries: A.D [Alice Dolan] Album
Level of Description: Item
Format: Photograph
Materials & Techniques:
Extent: 1
Creator: Lafayette [Photographers]Published/Created: [ca. 1886-1898]
Place of Origin: Dublin
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Physical Description:
Marks & Inscriptions: [Front] Lafayette, 30 Westmoreland Street, Dublin [Back] Prize medal and highest awards for artistic photography. Artist and photographer, Lafayette. Late of Paris. By special appointment, photographer to their excellencies, the Earl and Countess Cowper. 30 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. All negatives reserved for additional copies Enlargements, Oil, Painting and Opal Portraits.
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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