Carte de visite, portrait of a pensive monk

Title: Cabinet card, portrait of a pensive monk 

Reference: DD1/E/72

Subseries: A.D [Alice Dolan] Album

Level of Description: Item

Format: Photograph

Material & Techniques:

Extent: 1 

Creator: John Chancellor [photographers]

Published/Created: [ca. 1867-1898]

Place of Origin: Dublin

Physical Description:

Marks & Inscriptions:  [Front] Chancellor. Dublin. [Back] Patronized by T.R.H the Prince & Princess of Wales. H.R.H Prince Arthur. H.R.H the Duke of Cambridge. H.S.H Prince Teck. Chancellor. The Governor General of India. Lord Lieu. of Ireland & his Grace the Duke of Leinster. 55 Lower Sackville Street, Dublin. N.B Impressions of this portraiture can always be obtained by sending pattern. It can also be enlarged to any size and painted in oil or watercolors.

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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