Jack Russell Terrier Dog CDV Album Filler c1865 Politician Office Painting A4118 for Sale

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Jack Russell Terrier Dog CDV Album Filler c1865 Politician Office Painting A4118 For Sale

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Jack Russell Terrier Dog CDV Album Filler c1865 Politician Office Painting A4118:
$25.46

This is a Carte de Visite (CDV), which is French for \"visiting card.\" These small photo cards were commonly traded and collected by people in the 19th century; most popular in the 1860s.Standard-size card, measuring about 2.5 x 4 inches. Image comes from the painting \"A Jack in Office\" by Edwin Henry Landseer. The title is a slang expression for a pompous government official. It is a pun on the principal character: a Jack Russell terrier. A critic described how \'the well-fed and much caressed dog…keeps others from testing the food of which he has had too much\'.