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Description: | A carte-de-visite of Queen Victoria (1819-1901), taken by an unknown photographer in about 1858. Victoria stands rather coyly in profile. She is not yet dressed in morning for her husband, Prince Albert (1819-1861), who died of typhoid in December 1861. 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. 1858 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Unknown photographer | Identifier: | 2003-5001/2/22389 | Go to resource |
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