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The Jocelyn album: Photographs compiled by Cecilia Mary Jocelyn, 1850s-1860s

240 Portraits in set

Large landscape shaped brown leather family album, with gold clasp and lock. Inscribed on front ' C.M.J.' the family album of Cecilia Mary Jocelyn (née Elliott) who died in 1894. C.M.J. was the sister-in-law of the well-known amateur photographer Lady Jocelyn (Frances Elizabeth Cowper, Viscountess Jocelyn 1820-1880 whose work is probably included). Contains 590 carte-sized prints and other format albumen and salt prints, some trimmed and mounted in patterns, plus 1 page of collage photographs. Many unidentified sitters, plus family groups, animals, interiors, views, sculpture etc. Sitters include the British Royal Family, members of the Compton, Elliott, Drummond and Russell families as well as 25th Earl and Countess Crawford and Balcarres by Thomas Rodger, Lord Wantage by William Lake Price and Sir Coutts Lindsay.

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Robert Adamson; Sir Coutts Lindsay, 2nd Bt

by Unknown photographer
carbon print, 1850s
NPG Ax36075

'General Lindsay and his grandchildren'

by Unknown photographer
salt print, circa 1852
NPG Ax129052

Group at Balcarres

by Thomas Rodger
collodion calotype (salt print from a wet-plate collodion negative), circa 1853-1855
NPG Ax129021

Collage of 101 figures

compiled by Cecilia Mary Jocelyn (née Elliot), after Disdéri, after John Jabez Edwin Mayall, after Camille Silvy, and after Unknown photographers
1860s
NPG Ax129160