Cabinet card

As a cabinet format better known as the cabinet card (also Cabinetformat or short cabinet, cabinet card, . Engl Cabinet Portrait ) is called in the photograph an emerging about 1866 format prints, which was larger than the previously smaller card portraits.

Method

The cabinet card it was albumen paper prints on cardboard usually in the format 16.5 x 11.5 cm ( 4 ¼ x 6 ½ to 4 × 5 & ½ inches) was raised. Cabinet cards were mostly studio portraits. The cardboard frame usually edged with a red, black, or golden color. The carton itself was until about 1890 usually colorless, with modern embellishments. Finally, the first colored cardboard surfaces came on, usually in colors such as dark green and brown. From the mid- 1890s, the Cabinet format was made ​​in any size, cut both a photographic print on an oversized carton and, for example, a deduction on cardboard in width.

History

As a cabinet format a small-format portrait image was also known since the 16th century, were decorated with the cabinets. The photographic Cabinet - card format was first used in 1862 by the photographer George Wharton Simpson ( 1825-1880 ) and George Washington Wilson ( 1823-1893 ) for landscapes; it spread, coming from England and through their use by the London photographer Frederick Richard Window, from 1866 also for portraits. Gradually, the cabinet card displaced the smaller card portraits. However, the beginning of the 20th century lost the cabinet format in favor of the postcard format in popularity and had largely disappeared by the end of the First World War from the market.