Is reproducing a picture of a pirate without attribution meta-piracy?
9 Likes
Was this in a museum or library collection? It looks like a CDV or cabinet card, which should have the name of the photographer or studio on the cardboard backing. If this particular subject was part of a circus there may have been other copies printed, but if not your best bet for a reproduction would be to reach out to whoever owns this card to start with. Some of this stuff is really collectible, but thereās a lot of it out there (youād be surprised how many awesome animal tintypes and CDVās are out there when you start looking), so unless thereās some particular historical value or itās part of an existing archive itās probably not digitized. If you have any information about its provenience you might be able to locate a collector or historian who is knowledgeable about the photographer or the time/place it was taken.
This isnāt a bad place to start doing a little bit of research if youāre interested in this or similar: http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/tags/
Unless the monkey was provided by the photographer (short, heavy chain is some evidence to that), the gentleman may have been an organ grinder, (though I would have expected a longer, lighter chain).
1 Like
ā¦ and thatās all I needā¦ this monkey, this peg leg and this parrotā¦ and this paddle game! thatās all I need!
3 Likes
Hmmm. All I see is a photo of a parrot, a man with a peg leg, and a monkey.
Thatās not his foot. Thatās a very gifted boy.
1 Like
This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
