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The Dark Art of Cut and Paste
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Georgina Berkeley, CREDIT: Untitled Page From the Berkeley Album, 1867-71. Collage of watercolor and albumen silver prints. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Photo courtesy of Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, New York. -
Frances Elizabeth, Viscountess Jocelyn, CREDIT: Diamond Shape With Nine Studio Portraits of the Palmerston Family and a Painted Cherry Blossom Surround, From the Jocelyn Album, 1860s. Collage of watercolor and albumen silver prints. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. -
Mary Georgiana Caroline, Lady Filmer, CREDIT: Untitled Loose Page From the Filmer Album, mid-1860s. Collage of watercolor and albumen silver prints. Courtesy of Paul F. Walter. -
Victoria Alexandrina Anderson-Pelham, Countess of Yarborough, and Eva Macdonald, CREDIT: Mixed Pickles (Detail), From the Westmorland Album, 1864-70. Collage of watercolor and albumen silver prints. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. -
Maria Harriet Elizabeth Cator, CREDIT: Untitled Page From the Cator Album, late 1860s-'70s. Collage of watercolor and albumen silver prints. Courtesy of Hans P. Kraus Jr., New York. -
Marie-Blanche-Hennelle Fournier, CREDIT: Untitled Page From the Madame B Album, 1870s. Collage of watercolor, ink, and albumen silver prints. The Art Institute of Chicago, Mary and Leigh Block Endowment. -
Georgina Berkeley, CREDIT: Untitled Page From the Berkeley Album, 1866–71. Collage of watercolor, ink, pencil, and albumen silver prints. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. -
Elizabeth Pleydell-Bouverie and Jane Pleydell-Bouverie or Ellen Pleydell-Bouverie and Janet Pleydell-Bouverie, CREDIT: Untitled Page From the Bouverie Album, 1872-77. Collage of watercolor and albumen silver prints. Courtesy of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, N.Y. -
Georgina Berkeley, CREDIT: Untitled Page From the Berkeley Album, 1867-71. Collage of watercolor and albumen silver prints. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Photo courtesy of Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY. -
Kate Edith Gough, CREDIT: Untitled Page From the Gough Album, late 1870s. Collage of watercolor and albumen silver prints. V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum, London.