Business card
Black and white photograph of Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786-1871). Lawyer, seigneur and politician. Patriot.
- Accession Number 2018.11.40
- Fabricant / Éditeur Livernois
- Period 2nd half of the 19th century
- Medium and Support silver print, paper; cardboard
- Technique glued, printed
- Measurements 10,5 x 7,2 x 0,1 cm
Historical context
This calling card, a cardboard-mounted photograph by Livernois circa 1860, shows a portrait of Louis-Joseph Papineau (1786-1871) as President of the House of Lower Canada, a role he held from 1815 to 1823 and again from 1825 to 1837.
Louis-Joseph Papineau was a lawyer, seigneur and politician. A patriot leader during the 1837 rebellion, he fled to the United States, where a price had been put on his head. After a period of exile in...
- Accession Number 2018.11.40
- Fabricant / Éditeur Livernois
- Period 2nd half of the 19th century
- Medium and Support silver print, paper; cardboard
- Technique glued, printed
- Measurements 10,5 x 7,2 x 0,1 cm
© Pointe-à-Callière Collection, 2018.011.0040
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