Guy Little Theatrical Photograph
1850
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1850
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Guy Little Theatrical Photograph is a 1850 photographic by Duroni & Murer, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A photo shows Rachel, an actress from the 1800s. It was made by Duroni & Murer in the 19th century. The photo was printed on stiff card, a common way to share portraits back then. This style of photo was called a carte de visite. It fit in albums like visiting cards. People collected them just like photos today. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
This photograph of the actress Rachel, produced by Duroni & Murer around 1850, is an albumen print from a glass negative, mounted on card as a carte de visite. It belongs to a large collection of theatrical photographs assembled by Guy Little, who removed the cards from their original backings and mounted them in albums before bequeathing them to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The carte de visite format, patented in 1854, became widely popular during the 1860s as a collectible portrait format before being replaced by the larger cabinet card in the late 1870s.
Read the full account in the museum source.
They sold magic for a living. Duroni and Murer ran a Milan studio in the 1850s where theater stars posed under painted backdrops and stage tricks made the ordinary look supernatural—one trickster even vanished right…
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