Photo collage of five portraits arranged into a diamond. Unknown about 1864 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_ i
Photo collage of five portraits arranged into a diamond. Unknown about 1864 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
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