Guy Little Theatrical Photograph
1950
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1950
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Guy Little Theatrical Photograph is a 1950 photographic by Frederick Hollyer, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A photograph from the 19th century depicts Ellen Terry alongside an unidentified woman, reflecting the Victorian era's enthusiasm for the relatively new medium of photography. The image is an albumen print on card backing, typical of the "cartes de visite" format patented in 1854 and widely produced in the 1860s. This particular example was part of a larger collection of theatrical photographs assembled by Guy Tristram Little, later donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The collection includes both "cartes de visite" and larger "cabinet cards," which were later superseded by postcards…
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Frederick Hollyer made crisp, black-and-white portraits of performers and writers around the turn of the 1900s.
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