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A portrait album including one death-bed study of Tzar Nicholas I, 1855.
'Souvenir de St. Petersbourg', circa 1850s-60s
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'Souvenir de St. Petersbourg', circa 1850s-60s
Album of twenty-one photographs, the majority salt prints, contemporary retouching with ink and watercolour, all but two oval, approx. 4¾ x 3¾ in., the others also oval 6¾ x 5 in. and 3 x 3¾ in., the latter mounted on card, loosely laid in album, the others mounted on card and mounted in album, each with tissue guard fixed to opposite leaf, dark green morocco, titled on front cover, g.e., cloth wrapper and box, 4to.
'Souvenir de St. Petersbourg', circa 1850s-60s
Album of twenty-one photographs, the majority salt prints, contemporary retouching with ink and watercolour, all but two oval, approx. 4¾ x 3¾ in., the others also oval 6¾ x 5 in. and 3 x 3¾ in., the latter mounted on card, loosely laid in album, the others mounted on card and mounted in album, each with tissue guard fixed to opposite leaf, dark green morocco, titled on front cover, g.e., cloth wrapper and box, 4to.