BARON WILLIAM PETRE (1817-1884)
BARON WILLIAM PETRE (1817-1884)

Thorndon Hall Essex and environs, cricket, landscape and architecture, circa 1860s

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BARON WILLIAM PETRE (1817-1884)
Thorndon Hall Essex and environs, cricket, landscape and architecture, circa 1860s
Thirty-eight albumen prints, six approx. 11¼ x 14¼ in., the remainder approx. 9¼ x 11½ in., mounted on two-tone card (mounts trimmed), each with photographer's blindstamp William Petre Thorndon Hall Essex on mount (38)

Lot Essay

Views in and around the family estate including good formal garden studies and an unusual photograph of an aviary with large parrot on perch. Also including studies of a cricket match, the cricket team, trees blasted by lightning, country houses, churches, river scenes with bridges and one family group, possibly including the photographer.

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