BRADY, THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC CO., MEEK & HUGHES and others

Freaks, boxers, jockeys and humerous subjects, 1860s-70s

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BRADY, THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC CO., MEEK & HUGHES and others
Freaks, boxers, jockeys and humerous subjects, 1860s-70s
Album containing 132 cartes-de-visite including one hand-tinted, eleven cabinet cards, the majority inscribed in ink/pencil and with photographers' printed credits on mounts, loosely inserted in pre-cut window mounts with silver borders, identified and several with sitters' dates in pencil in a later hand on mounts, printed pictorial title page, black morocco with white metal front panel depicting a courting couple in Tudor costume in high relief, plain metal clasp, silver edges (leather rubbed), lge. 4to.; with twenty-five cartes and one cabinet card loosely inserted. (27)

Lot Essay

A fascinating album comprised mostly of portraits of freaks including several images of Charles Sherwood Stratton and Lavinia Warren otherwise known as General and Mrs. Tom Thumb; midgets G.W. Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren, General Tom Dot, Prince Adonis; Chung Mow, the Chinese dwarf; an art reproduction of William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill); P.T. Barnum; General Mite; siamese twins 'The Two-headed Nightingales' and the Brothers Tocci; giants Chang-Yu Sing, 7'9" (5), Captain Bates, 7'6½ "., Miss Bates, 8'; the Asters; portraits of matadors; Asi-Kitchi-Dan, the butterfly illusionist; three images of illusionist J.N. Maskelyn performing tricks; trapeze artist Leona Adelaide Stuart, boxers Bob Fitz Simmons, John Carmel Heenen (2), Thomas King (3), Tom Sayer (3), John Mace (2), Bob Travers, Coburn, Mills and Deerfoot; athlete Donald Dinnie; jockeys J. and H. Grimshaw, A. Edwards, T. Challoner, Fred Archer; 52¾-stone man Daniel Lambert; the claimant, jury and council from the Tichborne trial; two images of skeletons sitting around a table and and several humorous tableaux.

See colour illustration p. 16b.

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