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Description: | A carte-de-visite of the bodyguard of the Turkish Sultan, taken by an unknown photographer in about 1875.
These uniforms show an interesting mix between Eastern and European military fashions, and would have appealed to the Victorian's love of display and the exotic. 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: | cabinet card photograph | Temporal: | c. 1875 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Unknown photographer | Identifier: | 2003-5001/2/22393 | Go to resource |
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