Thursday, May 27, 2010

Sisters


Described on the back of the card as an "Artotype", must be some entrepreneurial photographer's description of photographing artworks as cabinet cards.

Available here.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

the artotype was a variation on the collotype photomechanical printing process. its use was licensed to certain publishing houses for book plates and the like in the late 19th c.

Joey said...

Ah! Thanks for the clarification!