A minette card album containing 9 cut-down cartes de visite, mostly gelatin silver prints
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1910
Materials
Paper, Cardboard, Leatherette or leather, Gilt foil
Measurements
172 x 73 x 23 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520689
Summary
A minette card album containing 9 cut-down cartes de visite. The album contains 7 leaves, each with space for 2 cards per face. The first and last leaves are glued to the album resulting in 12 faces. The album contains 9 cut down cartes de visite, including 7 gelatine silver prints, one albumen print and one collodion POP. The album is embossed in brown leather. The front and back both contain etched markings at the top and the bottom of the album. A gilt edge and clasp sits centrally that allows the album to be closed. The leaves sizes are different top and bottom. White mounts with gilt lining surrounds the frame.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986