VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including DOWNEY, CREMIERE & CIE., WINDOW, THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC COMPANY and MAULL & CO.

Leaders including the Sultan of Turkey, the Khedire of Egypt and the King of Siam, 1860s-70s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including DOWNEY, CREMIERE & CIE., WINDOW, THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC COMPANY and MAULL & CO.
Leaders including the Sultan of Turkey, the Khedire of Egypt and the King of Siam, 1860s-70s
Album containing sixty cartes-de-visite and seven cabinet cards, four hand-tinted, several annotated or inscribed in ink/pencil and with photographers' printed credits on mounts or on verso, loosely inserted in pre-cut window mounts with gilt borders, several identified in pencil in a later hand on mounts, thermo-plastic boards, the front cover with raised design of musical instruments and cherubs flanking a blank heraldic shield, decorative palmette borders to both covers, thermo-plastic clasp (new black morocco spine, back cover chipped at one corner), marbled edges, sm. 4to.

拍品專文

Including several portraits of Abdul Hamid II the Sultan of Turkey (1842-1918), the sons of the Sultan, Sultan Abdulah Mohamed, the statesman Fuad Pasha (1814-1869), the Egyptian revolutionist Arabi Pasha Ahmed (1841-1919), Generals Omar Pasha (1837-1900), Mukhar Pasha Ahmed (1832-1919) and Hussein Pasha (1819-1876), a group portrait of the generals, the Shah of Persia Nasser ed Din (1830-1896), a portrait of an attendant of the Sultan inscribed on the reverse Given by the Queen July 1867...Shortly after I was dining with Queen Victoria and photographs of the Sultan's suite were handed round; I chanced to say this is my friend that I sat next to the day the Turkish Sultan came to Windsor. The Queen then said: Oh you must have it. J.W.L. (J.W.Legg, tutor of the Prince of Wales), the Khedire of Egypt; Chulalongkorn, the King of Siam (1853-1910); the Moslem agitator Mohammed Ahmed (1843-1885), Zanzibar, and two portraits of a Turkish Ambassador.

See colour illustration p. 16b