A hand-tinted stereoview presents a staged comic domestic scene: an elderly man in a smoking cap dozes at a dining table set with candelabra and silver, while a woman in a pink dress stands beside him drinking from a glass, her head tilted back. The setting is an ornate parlor with a folding screen, patterned wallpaper, and a mantel crowded with clocks and figurines, suggesting a middle-class domestic interior staged in a photographic studio. The arched-top albumen prints are mounted on a card blind-stamped 'TOBY' in the lower left corner.
The trilingual title card (English, French, German) and the 'Entered at Stationer's Hall' notice indicate a publisher active in the international stereoview export trade of the 1860s, though the specific firm cannot be identified from the surviving imprint.
Photographer/publisher: Unknown
Period/date: circa 1865
Dimensions: 175 x 85 mm
Condition: Good; hand-tinting somewhat faded and unevenly applied, particularly in the pink dress and tablecloth areas, with overall yellowing of the mount and light surface craquelure to the albumen prints. The card shows edge wear and minor corner softening, with the blind stamp partially legible. No tears, but the mount displays scattered light foxing.
Reverse: Printed title card reading: "The Old Bachelor! / Le Vieux Garçon! | Der alte Junggesell! / Entered at Stationer's Hall. / Déposé."
Keywords: stereoview, hand-tinted, genre scene, Victorian interior, albumen print
Photographer Biography:
No verified biographical information available.
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