Lot 59

CLAUDET, ELLIOTT & FRY, MAULL & POLYBLANK, HILLS & SAUNDERS, THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC CO., J. & C. WATKINS, KILBURN and others

Famous personalities including scientists, 1860s-70s

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CLAUDET, ELLIOTT & FRY, MAULL & POLYBLANK, HILLS & SAUNDERS, THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC CO., J. & C. WATKINS, KILBURN and others
Famous personalities including scientists, 1860s-70s
Album containing 121 cartes-de-visite, seven cabinet cards and one woodburytype, the majority identified in ink/pencil and with photographers' printed credits on mounts or on verso, loosely inserted in pre-cut window mounts with gilt borders, identified and the majority with sitters' dates in pencil in a later hand on mounts, decorative printed title page Photograph Album, lined in lilac silk, tan morocco, gilt metal front panel with five bosses consisting of marbled glass inset into decorative metal mounts chased with foliage, back cover and spine ruled in gilt and blind, g.e., lge. 4to.; with four carte-de-visite and four cabinet card portraits loosely inserted. (9)

Lot Essay

A comprehensive selection of portraits of eminent scientists, naturalists, physicians, surgeons, physiologists, mathematicians, assyriologists, archaeologists and others including Charles Darwin (3), Sir David Brewster (4 including one by Claudet), Sir Lyon Playfair, Sir Isaac Pitman, Sir Charles Wheatstone, Sir Richard Douglas Powell, Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor (who invented improvements to Talbot's photographic processes including the use of hyposulphate of lime as a fixer), photographer André Disdéri (see lot 24) and Louis Pasteur.

A complete list of sitters is available on request.

See colour illustration p. 17

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