The photograph, the source, and the unknowns
Mayall's carte-de-visite portraits of the Queen sold in the hundreds of thousands: the first mass-shared family photographs.
- Archive caption
- Queen Victoria, carte-de-visite portrait
- Creator
- John Jabez Edwin Mayall
- Date
- c. 1860
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Photographer J.J.E. Mayall died 1901; life+70 expired; US PD via pre-1930 publication · Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Source record
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John Jabez Edwin Mayall. “Queen Victoria, carte-de-visite by Mayall.” c. 1860. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Victoria_photographed_by_Mayall.JPG. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 714, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/3lhPAVl5b0Nd2Jr_/714
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