Cartes des visite, c. 1850s

Cartes des visite, c. 1850s

SELECTION OF AMBROTYPE PORTRAITS OF GENTLE WOMEN AND MEN, c. 1850s. Ambrotype certes des visite (5), framed under glass, image size approx., 105 x 84mm, 52 x 40mm, all with onately decorated Morocco cases including quater plates (3), sixth- plate (1) and half plate (1), some hand coloured examples.

Provenance: Concrete Matter Archive

(Quantity:5)

Concrete Matter Archive

This collection come from the archive of Frido Troost (1960 – 2013) a pioneering figure in the photography world. Art historian, teacher, curator, dealer, Troost contributed to the world of photography with legendary exhibition spaces and archives aming which the Institute for Concrete Matter in Haarlem (Netherlands), where photographs were thoroughly archived.