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Here's a photograph that I've always doubted the authenticity of. The model appears to be wearing an Egyptian style wig and "snakes" of some sort. I think her necklace is made out of lace bobbins. It would seem to be within the genre of art/nude carte de visite. Given the style of the paper mount, with its hard corners and two simple gold lines, that dates it to about 1860-1868. On the back is written: W. Ward Photographer, Richmond, Virginia, Also Army of Northern Virginia, In The Field, which would seem to date this more specifically during the Civil War. Here's my problem, for being almost 150 years old, the paper mount is in immaculate shape. Also, the paper the image is printed on feels a little thick for this era and is shiny almost like a satin or pearl RC paper. I believe it's an old image, but somehow a modern print married to an old backing? Any thoughts out there?
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The egyptian theme would fit with a photo from that time period.... Egyptology and Greek Revival were huge in Europe and America till the early 20th century.
but your theory of new print married to an old back is plausible looking at the rough cutting around the print
As for the paper, prints from late 1800's could have had a shiny coating it would depend on what type of supercoating was used... but no "shiny" papers arrived till the late 1870s I think....
Is a supercoating a protective layer they used to apply? The paper the image is printed on is also a little thick to me compared with what I usually see. And it's not shiny in a "metallic" way like I see on a lot of older prints. It's very evenly shiny in a "plastic" way.
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