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 William Stuart Marshall, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a late 19th-century photograph of actress Maude Branscombe. It’s a studio shot, meant for fans to collect. Back then, actors paid for photos to sell as "cartes de visite," like tiny calling cards. These photos popped up everywhere in the 1860s. People pasted them in albums like trading cards. Soon, bigger "cabinet cards" replaced them by the 1880s. Look up Victoria and Albert Museum.
This photograph by William Stuart Marshall depicts the actress Maude Branscombe and was produced during the Victorian era when studio portraiture became widely popular. The image is an albumen print from a glass negative, mounted on card as a carte de visite, a small-format portrait intended for collecting and exchange. The photograph forms part of a larger collection of theatrical cartes de visite and cabinet cards assembled by Guy Tristram Little, which was later donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Read the full account in the museum source.
William Stuart Marshall’s day job was running a shop called The Scottish Photographic Institution, but his real habit was sneaking behind the curtain of Edinburgh’s theaters at night.
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