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Portrait Cartes-de-visite album of Eminent Victorians
Creator
Camille SilvyFrench Photographer · 1834–1910
All works by this person →Camille Silvy once credited his start in photography to the influence of a drawing teacher he had as a child. Silvy had studied law and had become a diplomat, but it was after a visit to Algeria that he became a photographer. He met with early success photographing the landscape around the countryside outside of Paris where he grew up. One critic said of his landscapes: "It is difficult to obtain
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- about 1860–1862
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
The photographs are cartes-de-visite portraits of distinguished Britons sitters of the early 1860s, including members of the royal family, the aristocracy, statesmen, an explorer, and actors. A "modern" assembled album of 199 cartes-de-visit by Erich Sommer.
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