Richard Cobden MP

Carte de visite star

Collecting carte de visites photographs is a never-ending journey of discovery.

Regular readers will be aware of my research into the studio of W. & D. Downey that operated in South Shields and Newcastle on Tyne during the late-1850s and 1860s before relocating to London.

Their cartes of the great and good are a particular fascination of mine and my colle…