RICHARD DYKES ALEXANDER

'Photographic Portraits. 1857'

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RICHARD DYKES ALEXANDER
'Photographic Portraits. 1857'
Part album of 254 photographs, approx. one-third salt prints, the remainder albumen prints, various sizes from approx. 2½ x 2¼ in. to approx. 7 x 6 in., mostly with trimmed corners, mounted one, two or four-per-page within printed borders with printed credit R.D.A. Ipswich, the majority with ink manuscript title, ink manuscript index, numbered 1 - 218, apparently incomplete, full green morocco (disbound), titled and dated in gilt within decorative gilt border on front cover, gilt locking clasp with key, 4to.

來源

Charles Lewis May, great-grandson of Edward Curtis May, sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1978.

拍品專文

Although apparently incomplete, this album gives a good range of the portraits for which Alexander is known. It includes self-portraits, other members of the Alexander and Sims families, studies of Quaker friends and visiting speakers at temperance meetings. Several photographs show unusually large family or school groups. Also containing a small number of views, mostly in and around Ipswich, and two photographs of a tiger lying under pampas grass at Walton Garden.