Lot Essay
The family group consists of four women and a gentleman seated in front of a window. Other portraits are a man and woman seated at a table and three portraits of gentlemen.
Family group portrait, 1860s; portraits, 1850s-60s
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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including TAYLOR and THE LONDON PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Family group portrait, 1860s; portraits, 1850s-60s
Ambrotype, 4¼ x 5¾ in., hand-tinted, mounted as oval, decorative gilt-metal surround, paper-taped; with one daguerreotype 4¾ x 3½ in. and three ambrotypes, one sixth-plate and two ninth-plate, these hand-tinted with gilt highlights, gilt-metal surrounds, one stamped Taylor Glasgow on mount, three in folding cases (one lacking cover), one with photographer's credit label on verso. (5)
Family group portrait, 1860s; portraits, 1850s-60s
Ambrotype, 4¼ x 5¾ in., hand-tinted, mounted as oval, decorative gilt-metal surround, paper-taped; with one daguerreotype 4¾ x 3½ in. and three ambrotypes, one sixth-plate and two ninth-plate, these hand-tinted with gilt highlights, gilt-metal surrounds, one stamped Taylor Glasgow on mount, three in folding cases (one lacking cover), one with photographer's credit label on verso. (5)