[Carte-de-Visite Album of Famous Personages]

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  • [Carte-de-Visite Album of Famous Personages]
Date1860s-1870s
MediumAlbum of albumen silver prints
DimensionsOverall: 11 5/8 × 9 13/16 × 2 15/16 in. (29.5 × 25 × 7.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. and Susie Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2019.242
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
DescriptionThe introduction of the carte-de-visite portrait, promoted and popularized by the French photographer André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri in the mid-1850s, brought photography to the middle class and celebrity to many of nobler rank. The inexpensive eight-at-a-time method of making cartes de visite encouraged trading portraits with friends and family, along with collecting pictures of notable public figures, fueling a cult of celebrity. This album is filled with portraits of the British royal family, politicians, and writers, including Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Ruskin, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, each portrait identified with a beautifully calligraphic inscription.
ProvenanceJames Hughes Gamble, New Hampshire; [...]; ["an antique store in Meredith, New Hampshire"]; purchased by Richard and Kellie Gutman, 1985; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Etched, album cover, bottom center: J.H.G.

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