Group portrait outdoors. Unknown, photographer about 1864–1870 This page sits in an album that intermixes pages of unaltered cartes-de-visite with photocollages. Typically made by Victorian upper-class women, the photocollaged pages could include added elements as simple as a watercolor flourish in the middle of the page or a frame drawn around a mounted photograph. The photocollages however, could also be elaborate, full-paged compositions made with a variety of drawing materials and integrating photographs, found printed materials, and/or colored paper. _The Westmorland Album_ includes examp
Group portrait outdoors. Unknown, photographer about 1864–1870 This page sits in an album that intermixes pages of unaltered cartes-de-visite with photocollages. Typically made by Victorian upper-class women, the photocollaged pages could include added elements as simple as a watercolor flourish in the middle of the page or a frame drawn around a mounted photograph. The photocollages however, could also be elaborate, full-paged compositions made with a variety of drawing materials and integrating photographs, found printed materials, and/or colored paper. _The Westmorland Album_ includes examples of all these options. Many of the cartes-de-visites were inserted in specially manufactured album pages that came with slots. Many of those pages have watercolored floral designs at the center. Another page shows a bird (obtained from a printed source) carrying a photograph in its beak. On this page, the photocollagist has drawn a frame around the mounted photograph. Carolyn Peter, J. Paul Getty Museum, Department of Photographs, 2021 For more information about this album see the extended essay.
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