The Pearl, Photograph Album
Artist
Various Artists
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
Not on view
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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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