Jabez Hughes, Ad. Braun, Lombardi, Hills & Saunders, Elliott & Fry and others

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Jabez Hughes, Ad. Braun, Lombardi, Hills & Saunders, Elliott & Fry and others
Family album belonging to Charlotte Roper, 1860s-70s
Album containing approx. 195 albumen prints, a few hand-coloured, the majority carte-de-visite-size, other sizes approx. 4½ x 6 in. to 5½ x 9½ in., the majority of the cartes-de-visite with printed photographers' credits on mounts, variously mounted, titled and several dated in ink on mounts, inscribed Charlotte Roper Althorp House...Sept. 27th 1876 in ink inside front cover, half maroon morocco (heavily worn, spine lacking and front cover detached), oblong 4to.; with a quantity of miscellaneous portraits and views loosely inserted. (a lot)

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Charlotte Roper, born in 1848, was descended from John Roper of Etham who was Attorney General to King Henry VIII. The album contains family portraits, views of various country houses around Britain and Europe including cricketing and other group portraits of the family; and art reproductions.

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