Title
'Carte-de-visite' with a portrait by G R Lambert & Co.
Creator
Year/Period
10 March 1880
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Image size: 5.6 x 5.1 cm,
Frame size: 9.7 x 5.8 cm
Frame size: 9.7 x 5.8 cm
Accession No.
1994-04861
Collection of
The 1860s saw the emergence of inexpensive portraiture for the masses in a small format known as the ‘carte-de-visite’, the ancestor of modern-day name cards. These consisted of an albumen print pasted on to a cardboard mount approximately 6 x 10 cm (2.5 x 4 in) in size. The so-called ‘cartomania’ originated in London and Paris and soon became popular with all strata of society. Famous people, artworks and exotic faraway places were some of the subjects reproduced onto ‘cartes-de-visite’ and eagerly collected by the public.
