VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

British stereo views, 1850s-60s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS
British stereo views, 1850s-60s
Fifty-six albumen print stereocards, five hand-tinted, cream, buff or yellow card mounts, thirty-eight titled and with ?collector's name and address H. Mar Williams 8 Wellington Sq. Cheltenham in ink on verso, several of these with additional ink numbers and/or other names or initials incl. F.C.I[ngall] (see lot 64), Jabez Jones Esq., G. S. Penny, Barrington Price, one with blindstamp Sedgfield's English Scenery, three with printed title and credit labels of F. M. Good, seven with printed series title and credit Interior of Westminster Abbey. V. A. Prout, Phot., one with printed title and credit label Castleton Braemer (sic), Scotland. Photographed by Roger Fenton, a few inscribed in ink William C. Darrah Coll. (56)

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A fine group of uncommon English views including village scenes, coastal subjects and wooded landscape (two illus.); two hand-tinted rural studies by Grundy; two construction views of Brunel's Crumlin Viaduct; seven Westminster Abbey interiors; two Tower of London views and a still life of strawberry blossom by Good; and a study of cattle standing in a river, each image trimmed to oval.
The photographs formerly in the Collection of William Darrah were acquired from the auction of his collection at Hastings Galleries Ltd. in May 1979.