Figure 1.-- This 1888 English cabinet card was done in burgundy. A popular color in other countries as well. Interestingly the studio did the same portrait in whitish cards as well. This is the first time we have noted this. |
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We note a lot of cabinet cards with mounts done in colors, some in gilded letters. Red seems a popular color. We do not yet have a good idea of the different colors being used. Our English archive is too limited, escpecially cards that are dated. The cards in America during the 1880s were mostly dark colors like burgandy, darl blue, forrest green, dark brown, and black. We excpect hat the same colors were popular in England, but we can not yet confirm this. Hopefully we will get a better ideas as HBC grows. They were often dark colors, but we see some light colors, lighter than we see in America, We also notice some white or whiting cards. The whitish card here was done in 1880 (figure 1). Our initial impresion is that the whitish cards weee more common in the 1880s than America. As our European photographic sections are more limited than our American archive, the temptation is to use our American archive to date foreign cards, but as we see here, there are differences.
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