Mrs. Grant Thorold

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Mrs. Grant Thorold

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Thomas Richard Williams

Photographer · 1824–1871

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DaguerreotypistAmbrotypist

Little is known about the life of Thomas Richard Williams. The first professional record of him comes from 1850, when he set up a photographic business in London. In 1854, while working for Philip Henry Delamotte, Williams made his celebrated stereograph daguerreotypes of the Crystal Palace. Some scholars consider Williams to be one of the first photographers to record events as they happened, mak

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Date
about 1862–1866
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
English
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
24726f25-c12f-4ac8-95ca-cebbd2a62c81

This photograph sits in an album that intermixes pages of _cartes-de-visite_ with full-page photocollages. Victorian collagists took their photographic materials primarily from _cartes-de-visite_. Patented by André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854, the _carte-de-visite_ was easily and inexpensively printed ([84.XD.1157.2179](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/107JXY)). By the 1860s, _cartomania _ had taken hold. It became customary to exchange _cartes-de-visite_ on social calls. These small studio portraits measure 3 ½ x 2 1/8 inches, about the size of a playing card. It is not known whether they removed the photographs from the thick cardstock on which they had been mounted or obtained unmounted prints from the photographer. People also collected cards of the royal family, actors, and politicians (see for example, the image of Princess Christina of the United Kingdom found in [this album](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/107NCC)). A woman’s collection of _cartes-de-visite_ visually displayed her social circle and favorite celebrities The _cartes-de-visite_ could be inserted in specially manufactured [album pages that came with slots](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/107NFF?altImage=a47556b8-9e6c-4537-8b8a-afb7e2938e77). Carolyn Peter, J. Paul Getty Museum, Department of Photographs 2021 For more information about this album see the [extended essay](https://museum-essays.getty.edu/photographs/cpeter-westmorland-album/).

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