WILLIAM GRAHAM VIVIAN, HENRY ARTHUR HERBERT AND OTHERS

Henry Arthur Herbert's portrait and view album, circa 1850s

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WILLIAM GRAHAM VIVIAN, HENRY ARTHUR HERBERT AND OTHERS
Henry Arthur Herbert's portrait and view album, circa 1850s
Album of over 150 photographs, the majority albumen prints but including a few salt prints, various sizes from carte-de-visite to approx. 8½ x 14 in., one with photographer's blindstamp Graham Vivian, many trimmed with arched top or to oval, signed by sitters in ink or identified in pencil in a later hand on mounts (lacking six photographs), inscribed in ink inside front cover This book belonged to Harry Herbert of Muckross. Coldstream Guards, maroon leather, gilt, initialled H.A.H. in gilt on front cover and titled PHOTOGRAPH in gilt on spine, g.e. (lacking gilt clasp), 15¼ x 11¼ in.

Literature

Haworth-Booth, The Golden Age of British Photography 1839-1900, p. 120; Rogers, Camera Portraits Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery 1839-1989, p. 52

Lot Essay

Fifty-two large individual portraits, many of members of the Coldstream Guards, several in uniform; four portraits of gamekeepers and estate workers; the Princess Royal's bridesmaids; seventeen large views in and around the estate and of Eton and Windsor; military portrait groups and some commercial subjects in half-stereo or carte-de-visite format.
Henry Arthur Herbert of Muckross was the member of parliament for Co. Kerry, Ireland. Mark Haworth-Booth suggests in The Golden Age of British Photography 1839-1900 that he was an amateur photographer. For information on the photographer William Graham Vivian see Rogers, Camera Portraits.

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