Man with top hat and book
- Title:
- Man with top hat and book
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- History of photography
- Creator:
- Disdéri, André Adolphe-Eugène
- Creation Date:
- ca. 1860
- ID Number:
- RMM08043_bI5_f05_001
- Collection Number:
- 8043
- File Name:
- RMM08043_bI5_f05_001.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- albumen prints
- Subject:
- Commercial photography
portraits
commercial portraits - Measurement:
- 20.2 x 23.3 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Uncut sheet of cartes-de-visite, 8 images in two rows. All images feature the same light skinned man with bushy sideburns in a cutaway coat and plaid trousers shot in a studio with a drape and furniture with barley twist legs. In the first three images he stands formally in a top hat, one hand on his umbrella, the other at his waist. In the others he is seated, hatless, a book on his crossed leg as though he's reading.
- Notes:
- Uncut sheet of cartes-de-visite. Disdéri patented the carte-de-visite in 1854.
- Cite As:
- Stephan Loewentheil Photograph Collection, #8043. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Stephan Loewentheil Photograph Collection
- Box:
- I-1
- Folder:
- 5
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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