Caption
Fourteen reliefs with portraits and profiles, photograph, page, number: '115 - 127', photographer: F. Cole, c. 1857 - in or before 1867, paper, albumen print, height 163 mm x width 104 mm, historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life) (profile portrait), sculpture (relief, sculpture), carving, applied arts, A vertical sheet shows a series of cameo-style oval and circular relief portraits and small carved scenes arranged in rows, all rendered in a muted sepia tone. At the top is a large circular medallion with a left-facing male profile set against a dark background, bordered by a thin raised rim. Below and to the center is a large oval portrait of a left-facing female bust adorned with wreath-like foliage in her hair and draped clothing, also within a framed oval. Smaller ovals and circular pieces flank these main images, depicting various left-facing profiles, partial heads, and miniature scenes including figures and a reclining animal, each shown as low-relief images on plain backgrounds. The pieces vary in shape from full ovals to irregular fragments and are evenly spaced on a pale rectangular background with faint margining around the sheet.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26A97_459
License type
Rights managed
Available size
33.6Mb (5.5Mb) / 9.4in x 13.9in / 2819 x 4166 (300dpi)