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A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media
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Studies exploring the link between the representation of judges, photography and mass media tend to focus on the appearance of cameras in courtrooms and the reproduction of the resulting photographs in the press at the beginning of the twentieth century. But more than fifty years separate these developments from the birth of photography in the late 1830s. This study examines a previously unexplored encounter between the English judiciary and photography that began in the 1860s. The pictures where known as ‘carte de visite’. They were the first type of photographic image capable of being mass produced. It is a form of photography that, for a period of almost twenty years, attracted a frenzy of interest. Drawing upon a number of archives, including the library of Lincoln's Inn, London's National Portrait Gallery and my own personal collection this paper has two objectives. The first is to examine the carte portraits of senior members of the judiciary that were produced during that time. What appears within the frame of this new form of judicial portraiture? Of particular interest is the impact the chemical and technological developments that come together in carte photographs had on what appears within the frame of portraits. The second objective is to examine the manner in which they were displayed. This engages a commonplace of scholarship on portraiture; the location and mode of display shape the meaning of what lies within the frame of the picture. Carte portraits were produced with a particular display in mind: the album. They were to be viewed not in isolation, but as part of an assemblage of portraits. Few albums survive. Those that do offer a rare opportunity to examine the way carte portraits of judges were used and the meanings they generated through their display. Three albums containing carte portraits of judges will be considered.
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The paper examines carte de visite portraits of senior English judges from the 1860s as an early mass-media photography phenomenon, analyzing what appears within the frame and how album display shaped meaning. Through three surviving albums, it argues these portraits both reproduced state-portraiture conventions and made judicial authority more ordinary, intimate, and commercially visible.
Key findings
- Carte de visite were the first mass-produced photographic images: an estimated 300–400 million cartes were sold in England between 1862 and 1866, and up to 4 million cartes of Queen Victoria were sold between 1860 and 1862; 1866 copyright records list 44 carte portraits of Victoria, 77 of the Prince of Wales, and 70 of Princess Alexandra.
- Judicial cartes often follow state-portraiture conventions—robes, wigs, regalia, plain backgrounds—but also include civilian/bourgeois informal portraits; their small size (about 89 by 58 mm) and photographic detail produced experiences of proximity, intimacy, and “warts and all” openness.
- Three albums show different imagined communities: the Effie Chitty album (48 pages, 135 portraits) domesticates judicial portraits into genealogy; Lincoln’s Inn “Album 2” (34 pages, 91 carte portraits and 2 cabinet cards, 82 sitters identified as judicial office-holders) displays legal professional hierarchy as family; the NPG “Tichborne Claimant Trial Album” (50 pages, 148 carte portraits; 14 judge portraits, 12 in state-portrait style) places judges within a Grangerised civil-society display and courtroom drama.
- Studios commodified judges’ “attention capital”: an 1866 S.B. Beal catalogue listed judicial cartes for sale, and Cockburn’s Tichborne role included a 188-day criminal trial, an 800-page summary reported in newspapers for eighteen days, and later publication as a book.
Methods
- Archival and visual study drawing on Lincoln’s Inn library (over 400 carte portraits, many of judges), London’s National Portrait Gallery, and the author’s personal collection purchased via eBay.
- Close analysis of three albums containing carte portraits of judges: the Effie Chitty album, Lincoln’s Inn “Album 2,” and the NPG “Tichborne Claimant Trial Album.”
- Interpretive historical analysis of composition within the frame and of album curation/display, using portraiture scholarship on state portraiture, Grangerising, and carte-album practices rather than quantitative methods.
Limitations
- The paper states that few carte albums survive; provenance for “Album 2” is little known; the Tichborne album’s title is misleading because most portraits are unrelated to the case; primary versus secondary market production is often impossible to distinguish; cartes lack dates and captions may have been added or amended later.
- Evident from the text: the analysis rests on three surviving albums plus the author’s personal collection, so it is not a representative sample; there is no systematic sampling or quantitative coding, and claims about the meanings generated by display are interpretive.
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“When on display for sale to the public, they were always presented in the shop window in multiple portrait displays (Moran, 2017).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 1 Introduction
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The ‘Judges on display: locating the meaning’ section says studio windows clustered carte portraits and that individual cartes were not viewed in isolation in those displays. The ‘Carte de visite portraiture’ section also says cartes were sold through other outlets, so the paper does not establish that portraits displayed for sale were always presented in shop windows. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“Carte portraits were rarely viewed in isolation.”
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“Cartes were displayed in an album.”
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“The sitter most frequently represented in the album, appearing in eight portraits, is 'Sir Frederick Pollock'.28”
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“The majority of the carte portraits of judicial office-holders show the sitter not in robes of office, but in civilian dress.”
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“People who purchased them also displayed them with other carte portraits.”
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“Various family members were legal professionals, including judges.”
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“Those that do are confined to nine of the fifty pages of the album.”
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“With one exception, the captions that accompany these portraits, 'Grandfather', emphasise their family meaning.”
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“Others include obtaining new cartes through other social encounters.”
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“It was purchased by the gallery in 1984 from Eric Horne, who inherited it from his grandmother, who purchased it at an auction sometime after the World War I. 37”
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“The album contains 135 portraits.24”
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“Fourteen of the portraits in this section are of judges; twelve are in the style of 'state portraits' of judges.”
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“It was donated to Lincoln's Inn late in the twentieth century by the Law Society of England and Wales.It is catalogued as 'Album 2'.”
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“On closer inspection, the album's display appears to be in two parts.The first part, with sixteen portraits (several of the mounts in this part are empty), runs from pages 1 to 9.This is followed by sixty-six that fill the remaining pages.”
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“The album has only one portrait of Effie's father, Sir Joseph William Chitty.It appears on page 6 without a caption.”
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“The final album is catalogued in the NPG's collection as 'The Tichborne Claimant Trial Album: cartes-de-visite by various photographers, 1860s-1870s' (Unknown, undated).Its fifty pages contain 148 carte portraits.”
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“Negotiating swaps with other album owners was another mode of acquisition.”
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“Carte albums have a common format.Each doublesided laminated-card page has a number of frame mounts cut into it; the standard is four per side.21”
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“Viewing the album provided opportunities to identify sitters, remember them and gossip about their relationships and activities.”
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“Of similar size and style to the Effie Chitty album, its thirty-four pages contain ninety-one carte portraits and two larger cabinet-card portraits; some pages have empty mounts.The portraits date from the 1860s to the 1880s.”
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“The album has many of the physical characteristics associated with the familybible format.”
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“The reason for this is that, starting on page 10, a clear organising theme is apparent: legal institutional hierarchy.It begins with portraits of sitters identified as Lord Chancellors.The pages that follow group together Lord Chief Justices, 33 followed by those who held the office of Master of the Rolls, Lord Justices and Justices of various divisions of the High Court.34 The final pages display”
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“These include shopping for new cartes (commissioning photographs or buying readymade cartes).”
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“It begins with the portraits of the lost heir, the claimant and key family members of their respective families.Other portraits are of barristers involved in the cases, and key witnesses and eminent figures who supported the parties.One carte is a group portrait of the members of the jury from the second criminal trial.”
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“The robed cameo portrait is mounted opposite a carte of his brother, Sir George Pollock, also dressed in robes of office: the military regalia associated with the position of Field Marshal.The respective captions are more formal: 'Sir Frederick Pollock' and 'Field Marshall Sir George Pollock'.”
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“Page 3 of the album is made up of a display of seventeen portraits; all are legal professionals, several are judges.”
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“Other activities relate to curation: generating a system or a narrative that makes and makes sense of the display as a whole and the position of each carte within the album.”
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“The family organised and displayed in this album is different.It is all male.All its members are adults.The accompanying captions reference each sitter's legal institutional position.Eighty-two are identified as judicial office-holders.32”
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“At the time the carte portraits first appeared, they had great novelty.”
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“This captures well the range of sitters in the Tichborne album as a whole.”
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“Like the other albums, its binding references the usual associations with 'family' and 'genealogy'.Its etched, red-leather covers are embellished with a number of brass fittings: edgings, twin clasps and interwoven letters 'C', 'A' and 'T'.”
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“The Tichborne album has all the hallmarks of a 'Grangerised book'.”
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“Chief Justice Cockburn and senior trial judges appear before the portrait of the Lord Chancellor Roundell Palmer, who held that position during the litigation, between 1872 and 1874.”
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“Unlike graphic and later photographic images of courtroom proceedings in which the judge tends to be a marginal character, the carte de visite portraits put the judges at the centre of the picture.”
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“In many respects, what appears within the frame indicates that they are unremarkable portraits.”
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“Cockburn, who was one of the judges in the second criminal trial, appears too early in the story and before the judge who presided over the first trial, the civil case, Sir William Bovill.”
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“It begins with two portraits of Queen Victoria: both photographic reproductions of earlier graphic portraitsone that dates from 1825 and the other from 1837.”
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“The working-class butcher appears a second time on the last page of the section, this time as 'The Prisoner'.”
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“They offered viewers the most accurate representations of the physical likeness of the senior members of the judiciary.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
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“The examples considered here are typical of carte portraits of judicial sitters.”
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“The subset opens not with a portrait of the highest-ranking judge, but with portraits of the absent aristocrat at the centre of the litigation and the claimantat the time, a working-class, down-at-heel butcher from rural Australia.”
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“While all were active at the time of the Tichborne dispute, the majority do not appear to have had a direct connection with those proceedings.”
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“But the order of their appearance does not quite fit this scheme of things.”
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“The following pages display portraits of aristocrats, both domestic and European, followed by religious figures, including the Pope and the Bishop of London (John Jackson), and famous figures such as Florence Nightingale.The bulk of the album (over 50 per cent) is made up of portraits of writers, artists, actors, actresses and female opera singers.”
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In the paper
“Di Bello (2007) notes that the work of curation was often undertaken by women.”
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“The portrait in which he wears judicial regalia is his final appearance in the album.His retirement from judicial office in 1868 suggests the portrait predates that event, making it one of the earliest portraits in the album.”
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“In general, the carte album was a vehicle for the visualisation of an imagined community and the curator's position within it (Batchen, 2009, p. 91).”
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“The portrait of Joseph Chitty, like the others on the page, probably dates from the early 1870s.25”
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“Portraits of him dressed in the ceremonial robes of judicial office do exist but they are not in carte format: he was not appointed to judicial office until the fashion for the carte format had been superseded.26”
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“The display blends and integrates his institutional status emphasised by the portrait's composition into the genealogical themes of the family album.”
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“Each institutional category provides an opportunity to show the genealogy of that office.”
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“'Carte de visite' is a type of photographic picture made possible by the combination of two developments: one in chemistry, the other in the technology of camera optics.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 1 Introduction
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“In sharp contrast to the multicoloured butterflies and small animals that are to be found on the other pages of the album, the devils that decorate the genealogical display of portraits of members of the legal establishment suggest a playful counter-narrative to the display of these eminent individuals.”
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“This is very much a family albuma genealogical display.”
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“One estimate is that between 300 and 400 million cartes were sold in England between 1862 and 1866 (Darrah, 1981, p. 4).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 1 Introduction
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- Not matchedcites Darrah, 1981, p. 4
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“Carte portraits were produced with a particular display in mind: the album.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > Abstract
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“The title given to the album refers to a legal dispute that has been described as the greatest cause célèbre of the Victorian age (McWilliam, 2007).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites McWilliam, 2007
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“It depicts him as the embodiment of bourgeois respectability.”
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“But calling this album after these legal proceedings is misleading.The majority of portraits in the album have no connection with the Tichborne case.”
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“Albums also provided opportunities for the curator to construct and display a network of relations that involved what Batchen describes as 'flights of fancy and expressions of sentiment' (2009, p. 92).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
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- Not matchedcites Batchen, 2009
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“In contrast, the first section is more idiosyncratic, more personal and the legibility of the system is now difficult to decipher.But its priority over the use of portraits in a display of legal institutional hierarchy suggests it had particular significance for the album's curator.”
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“Holborn (2013) describes the Chitty and Pollock families as two of the bestknown nineteenth-century legal dynasties.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
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- Not matchedcites Holborn, 2013
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“Large-scale full-body portraits have long been associated with the expression of high status and social distance.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 1 Introduction
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lloyd, 2009, p. 18
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“Album 2 puts the legal professional investment in this ordinariness on display and shows how it has been integrated into the curator's sense of belonging in the legal professional family.”
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“Scholars have noted that a common characteristic of carte albums is the way in which were designed to look like a family bible.”
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“For example, it became fashionable to use them as calling cardsa phenomenon particularly associated with city settings (Batchen, 2009, p. 88).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
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- Not matchedcites Batchen, 2009
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“While the carte portrait of Sir Frederick Pollock in his judicial robes of office does stand out from the other portraits in the album, like the portrait of 'Baron Martin', it is not out of place in a family album and a display devoted to genealogical.It is woven into it.”
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“Album-making and album-gazing were central to the experience of this form of portraiture (Perry, 2012, p. 741).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Perry, 2012 source
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In the paper
“If, in part, the family-bible format suggests the album was a device for putting the curator's immediate kinship and social network on display, the curatorial process was not limited to these imagined communities.”
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“Professional social networks are a form of kinshipa set of relationships through which the members negotiate the trials and tribulations of their professional life course (Butler, 2002).”
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“Small portraits are associated social proximity and intimacy (Lloyd, 2009, p. 18).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 1 Introduction
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lloyd, 2009, p. 18
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“A portrait assisted in authenticating identity in the relatively anonymous context of a city (McCauley, 1985, p. 30).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
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- Not matchedcites McCauley, 1985
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“Her mother, Jessie, was the daughter of an eminent judge, Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, who was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer (1844-66), and his second wife, Sarah Ann Amowah (Rigg, 2004b).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
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- Not matchedcites Rigg, 2004b
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“Her father, Sir Joseph William Chitty, enjoyed a successful career at the Bar and was appointed a judge of the High Court in 1881 (Rigg, 2004a).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
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- Not matchedcites Rigg, 2004a
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“Albums became a feature of many households from the aristocracy to the lower middle classes (Hargreaves, 2001, p. 8).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
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- Not matchedcites Hargreaves, 2001
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“Displayed opposite his parents, its position emphasises the portrait's family meaning and genealogical significance.”
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In the paper
“If the multiple appearances of Sir Frederick give visual form to his dynastic significance, the final cameo celebrates and adds the value that comes from his institutional status to the domestic dynastic community displayed in and through the album's pages.31”
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“The ability to hold these small portraits close to the body also draws attention to a commonplace of portrait scholarship that the location of the picture and the mode of display impact on its meaning (Pointon, 1993).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 1 Introduction
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- Not matchedcites Pointon, 1993
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“Giving and exchanging cartes also became linked to specific celebrations, such as New Year's Day (McCauley, 1985, p. 28).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
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- Not matchedcites McCauley, 1985
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In the paper
“Their meaning is also shaped by practices of curation and the mode and location of their display (Pointon, 1993).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 1 Introduction
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Pointon, 1993
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In the paper
“Granger's system classifies society by way of a range of categories of 'wellknownness', or 'renown' (Kornmeier, 2008, p. 278).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Kornmeier, 2008 source
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In the paper
“The highest officers of state court officers and senior aristocrats are the respected avuncular figures and elder siblings.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“The reduced cost of portraiture and the entrepreneurial zeal of the studios not only widened access to portraiture of royalty, aristocrats and senior judges (all of whom had already made use of portraiture), but it also created new opportunities for public visibility for a much wider range of people.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
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In the paper
“That association with the lowest is more quixotic, idiosyncratic, lacking in substance and legitimacy.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“Their incorporation into portraits of authority figures was not unique to the judiciary, but indicative of wider changes taking place in the signs used in the depiction of figures of authority.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
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In the paper
“The closing display of the claimant as 'The Prisoner', his wife and his two crucial now discredited witnesses 39 shows the just deserts that follow the restoration of the status quo.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“Another other important dimension of this change is the opportunities carte portraits provided for viewers to experience mediated quasi interactions with senior judicial office-holders.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
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In the paper
“In others, the sitter fashions and presents himself according to more recent aesthetics of bourgeois respectability.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
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In the paper
“McWilliam (2007, p. 105) describes it as one of the great sensation novels of the day.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites McWilliam, 2007
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In the paper
“The opening display of the lost heir and the claimant starts the story rolling.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“One explanation for this might be Cockburn's pre-existing attention capital.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“He 'relished the limelight' (Lobban, 2004).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Lobban, 2004
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plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“While contemporaries were critical of this 'warts and all' quality, it was a feature of these portraits that introduced a new set of signs through which the values and virtues of judicial office might be represented: openness, transparency and authenticity.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
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In the paper
“Those that follow what I have described as the tradition of state portraiture follow a long-standing aesthetic convention through which the individual office-holder is depicted through a set of symbols associated with the office as the embodiment of its values and virtues.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
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In the paper
“But, from its opening pages, its content seems to have little to do with these types of relationships.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“The display of portraits visualises a sensational courtroom drama.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“It does this by reference to a hierarchy of public visibility linked to public recognition, reputation or significancewhat van Krieken (2012) describes as attention capital.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites van Krieken, 2012 source
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In the paper
“The curator has organised them according to the requirements of a dark romance of the landed gentry in battle against the corrupting forces of the working-class attempt to seize their lands and title.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“Queen Victoria is the 'mother' of the entire community of the time.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“All three albums draw attention to the important role played by the viewer in making the meaning of the carte portraits of judges.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“A contemporary description of carte albums from the nineteenth-century publication Art Journal is that they are a 'family portrait of the entire community' (Plunkett, 2003a, p. 61).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Plunkett, 2003a
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plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Not matched
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In the paper
“While the subjects of these portraits were in part responsible for their production, studios also played a key role in commissioning these portraits with a view to selling them to the public.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“The display shows the disruption of the ranking of visibility that a social drama being played out in and through the legal process and reported in the media might have.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“When the judges do appear, the logic of their display is far from clear, as their display does not seem to follow the usual rules of institutional value.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
hedged- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Displayed in this location, the portraits show them as the fathers and brothers 'in law' of the whole community.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“'Celebrity' is a term that points to this process of expanding public visibility of individuals.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
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In the paper
“James Granger published a book that set out a system of display for album-makers to follow.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“As Tucker notes, cartes de visite in general and the London Stereographic and Photographic Company studio in particular played an important role in making the Tichborne legal proceedings a visual spectacle for all to see and its main characters celebrities (Tucker, 2016).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Tucker, 2016 source
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In the paper
“The value of the attention attached to the highest category is closely associated with its longevity and its institutionalisation.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“Sporting heroes, opera singers and music-hall performers are the more artistic and creative relatives.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“In the eighteenth century, it became a fashionable pastime for wealthy males to collect reproductions of portraits and to organise their display in albums (Pointon, 1993).”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Pointon, 1993
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plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Judicial portraits appear as 'characters' in this story.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 32
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In the paper
“If carte portraits allowed judges to further grow their visibility, ostensibly based on the importance of their role in society, it is a form of picture that also increased the competition in the market-place of visibility.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
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In the paper
“In this context, 'ordinary' has strong class overtonesbeing associated with bourgeois respectability.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
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In the paper
“The three albums provide an opportunity to examine three different contexts in which carte portraits of judges contributed to making and making the meaning of three nineteenth-century imagined communities of various sizes and scales.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 9 Conclusion
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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The paper relies on this without support.
Few albums containing carte portraits survive.
“Few albums survive.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The carte photograph was introduced into England in 1857.
“The carte photograph was introduced into England in 1857.”
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The small size of carte portraits was characterised as one of their failings.
“The small size of carte portraits was also characterised as one of their failings.”
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In the paper
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
“The first part, with sixteen portraits (several of the mounts in this part are empty), runs from pages 1 to 9.This is followed by sixty-six that fill the remaining pages.”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
“its thirty-four pages contain ninety-one carte portraits and two larger cabinet-card portraits; some pages have empty mounts.”
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In the paper
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
“Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, who was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer (1844-66)”
§ A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte de visite and photography as a form of mass media > 21
“His retirement from judicial office in 1868 suggests the portrait predates that event, making it one of the earliest portraits in the album.”
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- Authors
- Moran, L. J.
- Affiliations
- Birkbeck, University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Moran, Leslie J.
- ORCID
- Moran, Leslie J.
- Venue
- International Journal of Law in Context
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2018-11-23
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 539-558
- ISSN
- 1744-5523 (ISSN-L)
- 1744-5531
- OpenAlex
- W2900926011
- Semantic Scholar
- 767dde187267d1bd5467ad7fc995ab7cf81f27c1
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- 1
- References
- 30
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- 2022: 1
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- journal article
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- en
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- International Journal of Law in Context (publishedVersion)
- BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/L007290/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Photographic and Visual Arts
- Social Sciences › Law › Law in Society and Culture
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Photography and Visual Culture
- Keywords
- carte de visite, English judiciary, mass media, 1860s, senior judges, Lincoln's Inn
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