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 H. Lehmann & Co, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This photo shows an actor named Theodore Wachtel. It was made in the 1800s by a studio called H. Lehmann & Co. You’ll find it today at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Back then, actors often posed for these small photos. They were printed on cards meant to share like trading cards. Each one had the photographer’s name on the back. Look up H. Lehmann & Co to see more work by this studio.
This albumen print depicts actor Theodore Wachtel and was produced by H. Lehmann & Co. as a carte de visite, a small photographic portrait mounted on card that became widely popular in the 1860s. The image belongs to a large collection of theatrical cartes de visite and cabinet cards assembled by collector Guy Tristram Little, later donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Such photographs, made from glass negatives, were commonly traded and collected during the Victorian era.
Read the full account in the museum source.
H. Lehmann & Co. spent the 1880s turning actors into tiny living shadows behind glass. They ran a studio in London where every sitter posed for the same stiff-backed portrait, but the real trick was the backdrop: a…
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