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Description: | A carte-de-visite of two girls sat together reading a letter, taken by an unknown photographer in about 1865. From their fine clothes these two girls, probably sisters, are clearly from a well-to-do family. They may even be the Royal Princesses Helena (1846-1923) and Louise (1848-1939). A carte-de-visite is a photograph mounted on a piece of card the size of a formal visiting card of the 1850s - hence the name. The format was introduced by the French photographer Andre-Adolphe-Eugene Disd�ri (1819-1889) in 1854. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | photograph carte-de-visite | Temporal: | c. 1865 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Hills & Saunders | Identifier: | 2003-5001/2/22388 | Go to resource |
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