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Portraits of the Renny, Paley and Cooke families and several views around Britain.
Elaborately hand-decorated family portrait album, 1860s
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Elaborately hand-decorated family portrait album, 1860s
Album containing approx. 260 albumen prints, sizes from 1 x 1 in. to 7½ x 9 in., several trimmed to oval or diamond, a few titled and numbered in the negatives, variously mounted, pages elaborately decorated with ink sketches depicting exotic scenes, flowers and foliage, birds, river scenes, knights in armour, marine subjects, snakes, horseshoes and monkeys, re-bound in faux red morocco, folio.
Elaborately hand-decorated family portrait album, 1860s
Album containing approx. 260 albumen prints, sizes from 1 x 1 in. to 7½ x 9 in., several trimmed to oval or diamond, a few titled and numbered in the negatives, variously mounted, pages elaborately decorated with ink sketches depicting exotic scenes, flowers and foliage, birds, river scenes, knights in armour, marine subjects, snakes, horseshoes and monkeys, re-bound in faux red morocco, folio.