Maull & Polyblank, Julien Vallou de Villeneuve, Felix Nadar and others

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Maull & Polyblank, Julien Vallou de Villeneuve, Felix Nadar and others
Portrait studies, late 1850s-90s
A quantity of photographs: salt, albumen, photogravure, woodburytype and gelatin silver prints, c-de-v-size to 9 3/8 x 7½in., one signed Nadar in ink on recto, several mounted on card and/or album pages, photographers' printed credits include Maull & Polyblank (5) and F. Nadar (1), occasional ink manuscript captions on mounts or on verso; with an album of portraits of students and lecturers at Trinity College, Oxford, 1860s containing sixty albumen prints, c-de-v-size to 5¾ x 4¼in., a few signed in ink by sitters on mounts, full morocco, 4to.; and another album (partially disbound), lge. 4to.(a lot)

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Portraits of Baudelaire, Queen Victoria, General Gordon, various studies of ladies, gentlemen and children including two by Vallou de Villeneuve of Mell-Augustine Broham and M. St. Germain, officers, a group of fishermen, one female nude; fourteen theatrical studies of actors and actresses by J & L. Caswall Smith.

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