Lot Essay
Celebrities include Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Disraeli, Gladstone, Duke of Marlborough, Charles Stewart Parnell, Victor Hugo, Henry Irving, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Thomas Carlyle.
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Family and celebrity portraits, 1850s-80s
Two albums, one with thirty-four albumen prints, c-d-v size to 4½ x 6½in., majority trimmed to oval, decoratively hand-painted designs with ink manuscript captions and dates on mounts, morocco-backed covers, 4to., the other compiled by Ted Grey containing fifty-five albumen prints and forty-four woodburytypes, c-d-v to 5¾ x 4in., several trimmed, hand-painted linear designs with ink manuscript captions and contents list on mounts, full morocco, ruled with ivy design in gilt on covers, g.e., 4to.; with another album of art reproductions and scenery, full morocco, 4to. (3)
Family and celebrity portraits, 1850s-80s
Two albums, one with thirty-four albumen prints, c-d-v size to 4½ x 6½in., majority trimmed to oval, decoratively hand-painted designs with ink manuscript captions and dates on mounts, morocco-backed covers, 4to., the other compiled by Ted Grey containing fifty-five albumen prints and forty-four woodburytypes, c-d-v to 5¾ x 4in., several trimmed, hand-painted linear designs with ink manuscript captions and contents list on mounts, full morocco, ruled with ivy design in gilt on covers, g.e., 4to.; with another album of art reproductions and scenery, full morocco, 4to. (3)