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The Green Drawing Room. Portrait of Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, by Sir T. Lawrence
Creator
André Adolphe-Eugène DisdériFrench Photographer · 1819–1889
All works by this person →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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- 1867
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
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- French
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- Photographs
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Photograph of a portrait of Princess Sophia, sister of King George IV, by Thomas Lawrence. The sitter is depicted as wearing a sumptuous dress and holding a handkerchief in her left hand, while her right arm rests on her chair. The painting is shown here as being displayed above a glass cabinet in an opulently decorated room.
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