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 George Parkinson Wright, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This albumen print depicts Sarah Lane and is an example of a 19th-century theatrical carte de visite, a small visiting-card-sized photograph popular in the 1860s. Produced from a glass negative, the image was mounted on stiff card bearing the photographer’s name, part of a widespread Victorian practice of collecting actor portraits alongside scenic views and art reproductions. The photograph originates from a large collection of cartes de visite and cabinet cards assembled by Guy Tristram Little, who removed them from their original backings and mounted them in albums before bequeathing the…
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George Parkinson Wright made black-and-white photographs of London stages in the late 1800s.
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