Carte de visite, portrait of a man with a dark piped waistcoat

 

Title: Carte de visite, portrait of a man and woman in a rose pattern dress

Reference: DD1/E/79

Subseries: A.D [Alice Dolan] Album

Level of Description: Item

Format: Photograph

Materials & Techniques:

Extent: 1 

Creator: :Lauder bros.[Photographers]

Published/Created: [ca. 1885-1898]

Place of Origins: Dublin

Physical Description:

Marks & Inscription:  [Front] Lauder bros. Dublin. [Back] Artists and Photographers Lauder Bros. Dublin, 32 Westmoreland Str. Photographs enlarged to life size. Children photographed instantaneously. Additional copies may be had by sending name and number. No. 8178.

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.