Lot Essay
Portraits include Mary Anderson, Connie Gilchrist, E.A. Southern, Mr. Bancroft, Nellie Farren, Charles Wyndham, and Ellen Terry; Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Prince Arthur.
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W. & D. Downey, Lock and Whitfield, Elliott & Fry, London Stereoscopic Co., Alexander Bassano and others
Portraits of actors, actresses and royalty, 1870s-80s
Album containing six cabinet cards and sixty-three cartes-de-visite, albumen prints and woodburytypes, one autographed T. Jefferson in ink on recto, the majority identified in pencil on mounts and with photographer's printed credit on verso, printed floral title page, embossed green calf, decorative gilt border on front cover, g.e., 4to.; with a quantity of carte-de-visite portraits of British royalty loosely inserted. (a lot)
Portraits of actors, actresses and royalty, 1870s-80s
Album containing six cabinet cards and sixty-three cartes-de-visite, albumen prints and woodburytypes, one autographed T. Jefferson in ink on recto, the majority identified in pencil on mounts and with photographer's printed credit on verso, printed floral title page, embossed green calf, decorative gilt border on front cover, g.e., 4to.; with a quantity of carte-de-visite portraits of British royalty loosely inserted. (a lot)