The Crimson Drawing Room. Portraits of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

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The Crimson Drawing Room. Portraits of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales

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André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

French Photographer · 1819–1889

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André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, former merchant, actor, and daguerreotypist, patented his invention, the *carte-de-visite* (visiting card) photograph, in 1854. At nine-by-six centimeters, *cartes* were primarily portraits, about the size of a conventional calling card and soon just as popular. Disdéri established his photographic practice with the manufacture of these tiny photographs; he divided a

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Date: 1867
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: French
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Photograph of full-length individual portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, when Prince and Princess of Wales respectively, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. The King is depicted in his military uniform, while the Queen wears a light-colored dress trimmed with lace and ribbons. The paintings are shown here as flanking a large mirror in an opulently decorated room.

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