Lot Essay
Including two portraits of gentlemen wearing spectacles.
Details
Negretti & Zambra, E. Shipp, Simonton & Millard, Lee (Liverpool), Farmer's, Mr. & Mrs. Ward and others
Portraits of ladies and gentlemen, 1850s-60s
Nineteen ambrotypes: ninth-plate to 4½ x 3½ in., approx. half hand-tinted and two with gilt highlights, several mounted as oval, all but one with gilt-metal mounts, sixteen in folding cases including three in the form of a book (six lacking front covers), five with photographer's credit stamped in gilt and one with printed paper label on cases, one in passe-partout and one paper-taped. (19)
Portraits of ladies and gentlemen, 1850s-60s
Nineteen ambrotypes: ninth-plate to 4½ x 3½ in., approx. half hand-tinted and two with gilt highlights, several mounted as oval, all but one with gilt-metal mounts, sixteen in folding cases including three in the form of a book (six lacking front covers), five with photographer's credit stamped in gilt and one with printed paper label on cases, one in passe-partout and one paper-taped. (19)