“Contributions Solicited” : carte de visite album “opener”. Geelong, early 1870s.

A$40 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Albumen print, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); verso with back mark in green of Harvey Dunden, Corner Portrait Gallery, Moorabool St., Geelong ; foxing to both sides. Cartes de visite of this type usually comprising a short rhyming verse decorated with any one of a multitude of different pictorial themes were printed as novelty items, to be placed as a frontispiece in the family s or collector s photograph album. The witty verse on this particular example reads: Here s room for all those that we love / Here s room for all those that love us / Here s room for all those that love them / that love those / that love us. Across the rhyme, at a jaunty angle, is printed Contributions Solicited . The text is set within a border of flowers and butterflies.

• Binding: Hardcover

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