DISDERI & CO., PETIT, ELLIOTT & FRY, MAYER & PIERSON and others

Composers and musicians, 1860s-70s

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DISDERI & CO., PETIT, ELLIOTT & FRY, MAYER & PIERSON and others
Composers and musicians, 1860s-70s
Album containing ninety-three cartes-de-visite, seven cabinet cards and two woodburytypes, the majority inscribed in ink/pencil, a few autographed and the majority with photographers' printed credits on mounts or on verso, loosely inserted in pre-cut window mounts with gilt borders, identified and with sitters' dates in pencil in a later hand on mounts, decorative printed title page Album of Photographs, inscribed H.H. White in ink within decorative foliate border on front blank, red morocco with stylised centrepiece and green leather border with palmette decoration in gilt on front cover, gilt clasp, g.e., 4to.; with two cartes-de-visite and two cabinet card portraits loosely inserted. (5)

Lot Essay

Sitters include Rossini, Verdi, Sir Julius Benedict, Félician David, Alberto Randegger (autographed), Sir William Sterndale Bennett, Offenbach (autographed), Saint Saëns, Wagner, Sigismon Thalberg, the impresario Louis Antoine Jullien, Johann Strauss, Josef Strauss, Louis Berlioz, Wienianski, Theresa Carreno, Josef Joachim, Henri Vieuxtemps, Stephen Heller, Franois Josef Fétis, Brinley Richards, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Eugène Ysaÿÿe, Frederick Clay, George Perry, Michael William Balfe, Sir Joseph Barnby, Edvard Greig, Muzio Clementi, Anton Rubinstein, and Franz Liszt.

A full list of sitters is available on request.

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