CultureBritish
Titles
- The Pearl, Photograph Album
- [MacCorquodale Family Album in Scotland]
Date1860s–1870s
MediumAlbum of albumen silver prints from glass negatives, with applied color
DimensionsOverall: 12 × 10 5/8 × 1 15/16 in. (30.5 × 27 × 4.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Dan and Mary Solomon
Object number2021.658
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
Exposé
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
In the 1860s and 1870s, aristocratic Victorian women created complex, imaginative, and often humorous photo-collages that mixed photography with drawing and watercolor. Some pages in the MacCorquodale family album present decorative floral or geometric surrounds for standard carte-de-visite portraits, while others present fantastic settings or trompe l’oeil compositions.
Provenance[Sotheby's London, October 18, 1974, Lot 296]; purchased by Eric Sommer; private collection; [Chiswick Auctions, 19th & 20th Century Photographs, December 1, 2021, Lot 139]; purchased by MFAH, 2021.
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Adolphe Terris
1864
Album of albumen silver prints from glass negatives
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Album of albumen silver prints from glass negatives
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Isaiah West Taber
1880
Album of albumen silver prints from glass negatives
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Julia Margaret Cameron
1864–1869, assembled 1869
Album of albumen silver prints from glass negatives
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Falconer Balston Larkworthy
1879
Album of albumen silver prints from glass negatives
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Édouard Baldus
1853–1864, assembled 1860s
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Nicola Tonger
published 1886
Album of albumen silver prints from glass negatives
2019.233.1-.25
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André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
1860s–1880s
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Adolphe Terris
1862
Book of albumen silver prints from glass negatives
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c. 1890
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2017.244
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