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Album belonging to John Etherington Welch Rolls, 1860s

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Album belonging to John Etherington Welch Rolls, 1860s
Album containing 117 albumen prints, sizes from carte-de-visite-size to 6¼ x 8¼ in. or the reverse, the majority titled and a few dated in ink on mounts, printed armorial bookplate John Etherington Welch Rolls Esq. of the Hendre mounted inside front cover, half black morocco, 4to.

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Including eight images of 'Her Majesty's Theatre consumed by Fire, Friday 29 Nov. 1867' and three of the 'Explosion at Clerkenwell, Friday 13 Dec. 1867 perpetrated by the Fenions'; views of ships including H.M.S. St. Vincent, the Malabar and the Minotaur, views around Margate, three ethnographical portraits of a 'Basuto Caffre', 'Chief of a tribe on Table mountain', a group playing croquet in front of Crumlin Hall, several interior and exterior views of The Hendre, various studies of ancient artifacts, views and portraits around Rockfield, individual portraits of the Harvey family and a few studies of Raglan Castle.

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