1850
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Guy Little Theatrical Photograph is a 1850 photographic by Arthur Bowen Davies, depicting Cummerbund, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This albumen print depicts actor J. H. Stead in a theatrical photograph by Davies from around 1850, produced as a carte de visite—a small visiting-card-sized portrait mounted on card stock. The image belongs to a large collection of 19th-century theatrical photographs assembled by collector Guy Tristram Little, who removed the cards from their original backings and mounted them in albums before bequeathing them to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Such cartes de visite, introduced in 1854, became widely popular in the 1860s as collectible items featuring portraits of actors alongside scenic…
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Arthur Bowen Davies (September 26, 1862 – October 24, 1928) was an avant-garde American artist and influential advocate of modern art in the United States c. 1910–1928.
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