HOWLETT & DOWNES, H. P. ROBINSON & SON and others

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HOWLETT & DOWNES, H. P. ROBINSON & SON and others

Miscellaneous photographs, 1850s - early 1900s

Twenty-two stereocards, one with title label - 11 - "The Leviathan"...Stern, post, keel, screw-box &c. Photographed By Robert Howlett & George Downes..., seven titled The International Exhibition of 1862 and numbered 4, 22, 33, 38, 66, 68, 72; four tissue stereographs; eight stereo glass diapositives; an album of sixteen albumen prints each approx. 7½ x 9¼ in., printed label Photographed by H. P. Robinson & Son, Rembrandt Studio, Red Hill inside front cover, half morocco, oblong 8vo; another album of fifty-five albumen and platinum prints, each approx. 4½ x 7½ in., full morocco, 4to; and forty-seven hand-tinted Japanese photographs, matt silver prints and collotypes, each approx. 2½ x 5¾ in., gilt composite window mounts.

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The H. P. Robinson & Son album contains exterior and interior views of a country house and views of the outbuildings, probably in Kent or Surrey; the other album includes hunting groups, family group portraits and views of Norwood Villa, 'Snilesworth', Sheriff Hutton Castle, Thirkleby, Weaverthorpe, Ship Canal 1860, and Sledmere.

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