Came across this recently... any ideas as to age and/or process? It doesn't look like a studio portrait, to me, but the card is CDV size. The...
Pulp! I think I wore my CD out… feels like yesterday.
I just love the beautiful lighting in these old photographs!
Thanks, I’ll do some searching on those names… I wish they had used a blotter!
I've been buying CDVs again and some of the writing has me stumped. Any help is appreciated. I can make out 'Edward' on the Window & Grove one,...
He’s watching you!
Thanks @Debora, I obviously need to do more reading/research. Good for him, I like the fashion! Here's the accompanying cabinet card. The...
Thanks everyone, you’ve provided some humour and confirmed what I thought, that the portrait is in fact of a man (though he may have thought of...
Ohh yes, thank you! I love that photo.
The photographer appears to have been active in the 1880s/90s. Would this fit with the fashion, does anyone know?
This cabinet card was advertised as a woman, but I'm not so sure. What do you think? [ATTACH]
Thank you so much @Figtree3 ! I’m learning a lot about early photographic processes, and the link(s) you’ve provided has been duly saved :). It’s...
This makes her birthdate c1803, different to the label on the photo case.
I spoke to the charity shop manager about the image. She told me she had taken it apart. And she couldn’t remember if there was anything written...
Thanks @Debora . Ancestry trees have Emma’s birthdate as 1803 or 1804, but it’s based on census data. I haven’t found a birth record yet.
I think you are right! Still a lot to confirm, but there’s a marriage in 1827 between John Peacock Byde and Emma Robinson… thanks!
@2manybooks I’m extremely grateful to you for sharing this information! To my eye, and looking at the image directly, the uncoloured areas appear...
@2manybooks thanks again, this is fascinating information… I’ve been taking a closer look at the snaps I took while the glass was off, and you...
Thanks again. I’m honestly not going to touch it now, after first checking it out! And I don’t want the label to fall off… I’ve put it away and...
Thanks @Debora … I’m familiar with Mayall but not with the techniques he might have used. I love those images on the Getty pages!
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