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Most actors and actresses had studio photographs taken, in everyday dress or theatrical costume, for ‘cartes de visite’, and  later ‘cabinet cards’.  Both were albumen prints made from glass negatives, attached to stiff card backing printed with the photographer’s name. \r\n\r\n‘Cartes de visite’, the size of  formal visiting cards, were patented in 1854 and produced in their millions during the 1860s when it became fashionable to collect them. Their subjects included  scenic views, tourist attractions and works of art, as well as portraits. They were superseded in the late 1870s by the larger and sturdier ‘cabinet cards’ whose popularity waned in turn during the  1890s in favour of postcards and studio portraits.\r\n\t \r\nThis photograph comes from a large collection of ‘cartes de visite’ and ‘cabinet cards’ removed from their backings and mounted in albums by Guy Tristram Little (d.1953) who bequeathed them  to the V&A.  A collector of greetings cards, games and photographs, Guy Little was a partner in the legal firm Messrs Milles Jennings White & Foster, and the solicitor and executor of Mrs.  Gabrielle Enthoven, whose theatrical collection formed the basis of the Theatre Collections at the V&A.","physicalDescription":"Photographic portrait of Ada Wilson, unidentified photographer, London, mid to late nineteenth century. It features a head and shoulders profile portrait of Wilson, her hair is gathered into a soft knot at the nape of her neck. She is wearing a slim double string of pearls around her neck and a jewelled band across the front of her hair. 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