Photo collage including Viscountess Malder, Lady Beauclerk, Mrs. Astley, and Viscountess Holmesdale. Camille Silvy, photographer (French, 1834 - 1910) Unknown about 1864–1869 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 might 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 an
Photo collage including Viscountess Malder, Lady Beauclerk, Mrs. Astley, and Viscountess Holmesdale. Camille Silvy, photographer (French, 1834 - 1910) Unknown about 1864–1869 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 might 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 frames around the mounted photographs. Carolyn Peter, J. Paul Getty Museum, Department of Photographs, 2021 (Recto, album page) lower center, black ink: "Viscountess Malden [space] Lady Di Beauclerk/Mrs. Astley [space] Viscountess Homesdale";
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