DISDERI, MAYER & PIERSON, SILVY, SOUTHWELL, CALDESI, WATKINS and others

Rothschild family portrait album, circa 1859-1863

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DISDERI, MAYER & PIERSON, SILVY, SOUTHWELL, CALDESI, WATKINS and others
Rothschild family portrait album, circa 1859-1863
A fine album containing over 350 photographs, salt prints and albumen prints, the majority in carte-de-visite format, many of these coated and on early unprinted mounts; thirty-one larger photographs to approx. 7 x 5 in., including four with oval blindstamp of Herbert Watkins and two signed on recto in ink Mayer Frres & Pierson, variously mounted up to six-per-page, ink manuscript titles and occasional dates, additional notes in pencil in a later hand, brown morocco lined with royal blue silk, covers edged in gilt-metal, applied gilt-metal monogram HD within gilt-metal border with knotted rope relief on front cover, titled Photographs in gilt on spine, lacking gilt clasps, oblong lge. 4to.

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An early album relating to the Rothschild family including portraits of Baron Mayer Rothschild; Anthony (1st Baronet), his daughters Constance and Annie; Gustave and Salomon; Evelina, Nathaniel (2nd Baronet, 1st Baron U.K.), Alfred, Leopold, James, Arthur, Hannah, Adele, Emma and Nathaniel (later Lord Rothschild) as children; with French and British aristocracy; European statesmen and politicians; Emperor Louis Napoleon, Empress Eugnie (both in larger format by Mayer Frres) and the Prince Imperial of France; the Queen of Spain and many others; approx. eighty cartes-de-visite by Disdri including a self-portrait, many of these varnished; large portraits of the composer M.J. Balfe, the artist Solomon A. Hart, author Albert R. Smith and another by Watkins; other large studies of the young Pasha of Egypt, Benjamin Davidson (San Francisco), Capt. & Mrs. Frederick Herbert and William Harrison Ainsworth.

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