The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm. Victorian photograph, portraiture, portrait. A portrait of a man and a woman created by Robert Smith Forrest and William Forrest arounf 1890. RS&W Forrest was a partnership between Robert Smith Forrest and William Forrest, until 1905 when the two photographers began to work from separate studios. William Forrest described himself as Photographer and Enlarger. It is said that Forrest worked for the Royal Family at Holyrood. Robert Smith Forrest, was born in Edinburgh on 29 March 1871 and died 9 Feb 1943.