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Portrait of an unknown individual
Retrat d'un personatge no identificat, unknown, 1850-1900
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Num. inventory: 21100F
Object name: tintype
Title: Retrat d'un personatge no identificat
Object date: 1850-1900
Color: color
Suport: metal
Author: unknown
Technique and material: tintype.
Photography
Portrait of an unknown individual. Its presence in the archives of the Maritime Museum of Barcelona suggests that the protagonist is related to the seafaring world and may be a ship’s captain, but no further information is available. This photograph is a tintype, a system that uses a metal sheet as the support for the photographic emulsion. It is not as delicate as the ambrotype, but the quality may be quite similar. The quality of this portrait is not especially good, and it has also been hand-coloured. As a result, this piece is of more interest as an example of a photographic technique than as a historical document.
