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[LILLY] DILLON

Dillon family album, 1860s-70s and another

Album of approx. 250 albumen prints, a few varnished, from carte-de-visite to approx. 10 x 7½ in., two initialled LGD and dated March 18/66 and June 7/66 in the negatives, seventeen with commercial titles in the negatives, titled in ink or pencil on mounts, full morocco, applied monogram LGD in gilt on upper cover, gilt clasps (incomplete), g.e., 4to; and an album of fifty carte-de-visite-sized albumen prints, fulkl morocco, monogram HEI on upper cover, sm. 4to. (2)

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Portraits mostly of the Dillon and Crofton families, one showing the Hon. Mrs. Dillon seated next to a camera on tripod, Lord Clonbrock, Lord Alan S. Churchill and four character studies of R. Percy French, views of Clonbrock including a circular study of the drawing room and another of the conservatory, two views of photographic huts in gardens, the Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin, and commercial views from visits in Britain and Europe.

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