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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Australia
- Date
- 1861-1862
- Media categories
- Album , Photograph
- Materials used
- hard bound album of carte de visite photographs 41 pages; 22 carte de visites; 1 engraving; 1 line block print; 1 relief halftone print; brown buckram cover; metal detail on cover
- Dimensions
- 22 carte de visites: each 8.6 x 5.4 cm image/sheet; engraving: 4.3 x 8.1 cm image; 10.0 x 12.6 cm sheet; line black print: 13.9 x 10.8 cm sheet; relief halftone print: 14.1 x 10.1 cm sheet; Album: 15.4 x 11.7 x 3.1 cm (open); 15.4 x 22.6 x 3.0 cm (closed); 14.0 x 11.0 cm (page)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Josef & Jeanne Lebovic, Sydney 2014
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 606.2014.a-x
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Unknown photographer
Works in the collection
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About
A carte de visite is a stiff card of about 11.4 x 6.4 cm, with an attached paper photograph, invented in 1854 by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disderi. Cartes were usually portraits and were made by the millions worldwide. Multi-lens, or ‘multiplying’ cameras were introduced in the 1860s, which were capable of producing from 2 to 32 images in quick succession, dramatically increasing the number of cartes de visite that could be made from a single photographic plate. They were easily reproduced by making paper contact prints from the glass plates, which were then cut and pasted to card. They were often collated into albums.
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Places
Where the work was made
Australia
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
The photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Mar 2015–08 Jun 2015
The photograph and Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 04 Jul 2015–11 Oct 2015
