CAMILLE SILVY, JABEZ HUGHES, JOHN J.E. MAYALL, BRITTON & SONS, BISSON FRÈRES and others

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CAMILLE SILVY, JABEZ HUGHES, JOHN J.E. MAYALL, BRITTON & SONS, BISSON FRÈRES and others

Courtenay family albums, 1860s-90s

Four albums containing approx. 420 albumen prints, 211 mounted as cartes-de-visite, other sizes approx. 2½ x 1¾ in. to 7 x 9 in., variously mounted, the majority identified in ink/pencil on mounts, one album inscribed Lady Caroline Courtenay and book she was d. of Lord Somers and m. ?Hon C.L. Courtenay in pencil on front blank, three morocco, two with gilt clasps, one burr walnut with gilt clasps, 4to. and oblong 8vo; with thirty-five photographs, fourteen mounted as cartes-de-visite on loose album pages. (5)

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Including portraits of various members of the Royal Family, the Archduchess John of Austria, Archbishop of Canterbury (Longley), General Studd, Queen Emma of the Sandwich Isles, three images of alpinistes by Bisson Frères, a portrait of a lady seated looking at an album of stereoviews, four views of Clovelly by Britton & Sons, several intimate portraits of members and friends of the Courtenay family including the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. John Talbot, the Hon. Mrs. Seymour Bathurst and the Hon. G.M. and Lady L. Fortescue.

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