| HANDLIST
OF SOME OF THE ALBUMS IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION |
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ALBUMS,
PHOTOGRAPHIC
216 Albums - numbered
1-216
Card index to contents and locations with alphabetical name cross
reference by title and donor. |
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Album 1-12, Camille Silvy Daybooks:
Silvy Daybook Vol. 1. Silvy numbers 1-1300 (undated pre-1860),
281 pages.
Silvy Daybook Vol. 2. Silvy numbers 1301-2700 (1 September 1860
- 24 March 1861), 355 pages.
Silvy Daybook Vol. 3, Silvy numbers 2701-4072 (25 March 1861
- 31 May 1861), 349 pages.
Silvy Daybook Vol. 4, Silvy numbers 4073-5500 (1 June 1861 -
13 August 1861), 363 pages.
Silvy Daybook Vol. 5, Silvy numbers 5501-6868 (14 August 1861
- 27 January 1862, 343 pages.
Silvy Daybook Vol. 6, Silvy numbers 6869-8243 (28 January 1862
- 21 May 1862, 343 pages.
Silvy Daybook Vol. 7, Silvy numbers 8244-9627 (22 May 1862 -
23 July 1866), 343 pages.
Silvy Daybook Vol. 8, Silvy numbers 9628-10000 (23 July - 30
July 1867), Silvy numbers 10001-10999 (23 June 1862 - 29 July
1862), 344 pages
Silvy Daybook Vol. 9, Silvy numbers 11000-12370 (30 July - 16
December 1862)
Silvy Daybook Vol. 10, Silvy numbers 12371-13762 (16 December
1862 - 9 July 1863)
Silvy Daybook Vol. 12 (N.B. Silvy Daybook Vol. 11 is not in the
NPG collection, which covers 11 months July 1863 - June 1864),
Silvy numbers 15151-16538 (June 1864 - 11 July 1865)
Silvy Daybook, Vol. 13, Silvy numbers 16539-17261 (11 July 1865
- July 1866) |
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Album 13: The Cabinet of Viscount Palmerston,
1865
14 gold-toned albumen
prints mounted on printed pages with sitters facsimile signatures
and credit to photographer and publisher of album - William Walker
of 64 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, London.
Bound in large format green leather volume with gold lettering.
Sitters include: 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Baron Cranworth, 2nd
Earl Granville, 8th Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Bt, 1st
Earl Russell, Viscount Cardwell, 1st Marquess of Ripon, 1st Viscount
Halifax, Gladstone, 2nd Baron of Alderley, 4th Earl of Clarendon,
Thomas Milner-Gibson and Charles Pelham Villiers.
Acquired 1954. Catalogued. |
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Album 14: The Cabinet of The Earl of Derby,
K.C. A.D., 1867
15 gold-toned albumen
prints mounted on printed pages with sitters facsimile signatures
and credit to photographer and publisher of album, William Walker
of 64 Margaret Street, St Cavendish Square, London.
Bound in large format green leather volume with gold lettering.
Sitters include: 14th Earl of Derby, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, 6th
Duke of Marlborough, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury, 1st Earl Cranbrook,
1st Earl of Derby, 3rd Duke of Buckingham & Chandos, 1st
Baron Hampton, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh,
Henry Thomas Lowry Corry, 1st Duke of Richmond & Gordon,
7th Duke of Rutland, Spencer Horatio Walpole and 6th Earl of
Mayo.
(Companion album to Album 13). Acquired 1954. Catalogued. |
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Album 15: The Ministry and House of Commons
(Jubilee 1887)
Large dark green leather-bound volume containing 15 pages of
704 very small photogravures by J.Russell and Sons (indexed onto
slips in PSR)
Sitters include Balfour, Asquith, Bright, Campbell-Bannerman
and Parnell. |
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Album
16: Our Conservative Statesmen
Volume I, edited by R.J.
Albert.
Published by Charles Newman & Company (n.d. pre 1895)
Blue cloth and buff leather-bound album containing 20 green-toned
carbon prints from photographs by Russell & Sons, Bassano,
London Stereoscopic Company, Barrauds, Henry Mayson and Elliott
& Fry, and accompanying letter press. 94 pages.
Sitters include: 1st Baron Ashbourne, 6th Duke of Richmond and
Gordon, 1st Viscount Chilston, 1st Viscount Knutsford, Edward
Stanhope, 1st Earl of Balfour, Sir John Gorst, Baron Pirbright,
7th Duke of Rutland, 1st Earl St Aldwyn, Viscount Alverstone,
Lord George Hamilton, 1st Viscount Chaplin, 1st Baron Allerton,
1st Baron Ritchee of Dundee, 1st Viscount Ullswater, 5th Earl
of Cadogan, Viscount Llandeff and Richard Middleton.
Acquired 1954, catalogued.
Album 17: Our Conservative
Statesmen
Volume II, edited by
R.J. Albery (n.d. pre 1895)
Blue cloth and buff leather-bound album containing 19 green-toned
carbon prints from photographs by Elliott & Fry, Bassano,
Barraud, Fradelle and Young, Russell & Sons, London Stereoscopic
Company, Nadar, Maull & Fox, Fry & Son, and Brown, Barnes
& Bell. With accompanying biographical text, 102 pages.
Sitters include: 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall, Sir Edward George
Clarke, Sir James Fergusson, 6th Bt, 1st Viscount Assheton, 1st
Marquess of Abergavenny, 1st Viscount Goschen, Randolph Churchill,
Marquess of Curzon, Sir William Dyke, Bt, Baron Stuart of Wortley,
1st Earl of Halsbury, James Lowlker, Sir Ashmead-Bartlett, 16th
Earl of Derby, Sir Arthur Forward, 1st Bt, 6th Duke of Northumberland,
9th Marquess of Lothian, and 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.
Acquired 1954, catalogued.
N.B. contains 12 pages of facsimile signatures of first list
of subscribers.
Album 18 - Our Conservative
and Unionist Statesmen
Volume I, Division I
Published by Newman, Graham & Co, 29 Ludgate Hill
Large form pink card bound volume containing 7 carbon prints
after photographs by Bassano, Maull & Fox, Russell &
Sons and Barraud, with biographical text, 42 pages including
plates.
Sitters include: 8th Duke of Devonshire, Sir William Hart Dyke,
7th Bt, Sir John Gorst, 6th Duke of Richmond & Gordon, 5th
Earl Cadogan, Baron James of Hereford and 9th Marquess of Lothian.
[Originally published by Private Subscription, price 13 shillings]
Given by E.E. Leggatt of Leggatt Brothers, April 1914
Catalogued. (Includes some duplicates of plates in Album 16-17,
24-25.)
Album 19: Our Conservative
and Unionist Statesmen
Volume 1, Division 2.
Published by Private Subscription (Not obtainable from the Booksellers)
Complete in Six Divisions Price 13shillings
Published by Newman, Graham and Co, post 1895 and pre 1898
29, Ludgate Hill, Londn E.C.
Contains green-tinted carbon prints by the photographers Russell
and Sons, Fradelle and Young, London Stereoscopic Co, Mayall
and Co, Melhuish and Gale,
Ruddock, Elliott and Fry,
Sitters include Earl of Derby, Viscount Cross, James Lowther,
Aretas Akers-Douglas, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Sir Matthew White
Ridley, Bt and the Duke of Norfolk.
Note some photographs duplicated in albums 16-17, 24-5.
Presented by E.E.Leggatt, April 1914
Acquisition numbers Ax15954 - Ax15960
Album 20: Our Conservative
and Unionist Statesman
Volume 1, Division 3.
Companion volume and identical publishing details to Album 19
Photographs by Russell and Sons, Fry and Son, London Stereoscopic
Co., A.C.Hoskins, Messrs Bassano, W. and D. Downey,
Sitters include Lord George Hamilton, Lord Halsbury, Arthur James
Balfour (2), Gerald William Balfour, Duke of Rutland, Earl of
Cranbrook,
Presented by E.E.Leggatt, April 1914
Acquisition numbers Ax15961 - Ax15967
Album 21: Our Conservative
and Unionist Statesmen
Volume 2, Division 4, post 1895 and pre 1898
Publishing details as with Album 19
Album 22: Our Conservative
and Unionist Statesmen
Volume 2, Division 5, post 1895 and pre 1898
Companion album to Album 19
Photographs by Messrs Bassano, Barrauds, Russell and Sons, John
Macmahon, Elliott and Fry, Viscount Knutsford
Sitters include Henry Chaplin, Charles Thomson Ritchie, Marqis
of Landsdowne, Sir Richard Everard Webster, Sir Edwarde Clarke,
Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay, and Walter Hume Long
Presented by E.E.Leggatt, April 1914
Acquisition numbers Ax16011 - Ax16018
Album 23: Our Conservative
and Unionist Statesmen
Description and publishing details as with Album 19
Volume 2, Division 6, post 1895 and pre 1898.
Album 24: Our Conservative
and Unionist Statesmen
Volume 1, 1907
Album 25: Our Conservative
and Unionist Statesmen
Volume 2, 1907
Large red leather bound volume (spine missing)
Contains 15 carbon prints by various photographers
Sitters include Salisbury, Balfour of Burleigh, Akers-Douglas,
James of Hereford, Fellowes, Selbourne, Curzon of Kedleston,
St John Brodrick, Wyndham, Linlithgow, Cawdor, Arnold-Foster,
Austen Chamberlain, and Joseph Chamberlain
Facsimile autographs of subscribers at rear
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Album 26: Walery Great Men 1875-1900
Large blue and white board portfolio originally containing "English
Watercolour"
Contains 28 loose carbon prints with biographies
For Walery prints bound in original albums see "Our Celebrities"
(Albums 194-195)
Transferred to Walery Mount 5 Photographers Box |
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Album 27: Men and
Women of the Day 1888
Published Richard Bentley
and Son
Large black and gold leather bound volume, acquired 1937.
Contains 35 sepia-toned carbon prints by Barraud
Sitters: 8th Duke of Devonshire, Mary Anderson, Cardinal Newman,
John Ruskin, Dame Margaret and WH Kendal, John Bright, Joseph
Chamberlain, Ellen Terry, Herbert Spencer, Sir Henry Irving,
Sir Richard Owen, 1st Viscount Wolseley, Clara Shumann, Sir Walter
Besant, Robert Browning, Marie Roze, John Charles Ryle, Sir William
Hewlett, Catherine Gladstone, Hans Richter, W G Grace, Helen
Mathers, Sir Henry Cotton, Duchess of Rutland, John Sims Reeves,
Sir Daniel Gooch, Lord Tennyson, Antionette Sterling, Sir Charles
Warren, Edmond Warre, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Hugh Reginald
Haweis, John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley, Ellen Wallis, Frederic
William Farrar.
*Lady Randolph Churchill is missing
All have been catalogued and photographed (Ax5404-x5438) |
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Album 28: Men and Women of the Day 1889
Published Richard Bentley
& Son
Large red cloth bound volume, acquired 1892
Contains 36 Carbon prints by Barraud
Sitters: William Henry Smith, Fanny Bernard-Beere, Charles Haddon
Spurgeon, 1st Baron Avebury, Rhoda Broughton, James Cowell Welldon,
7th Duke of Devonshire, Lady Hallé, Sir Charles Hallé,
John Lawrence Toole, Mary Moore, Sir Edward Watkin, Adelina Patti,
Thomas Hardy, William Boyd Carpenter, Georges Boulanger, Maude
Valérie White, Henry Hawley Smart, 1st Baron Brampton,
Alice Anne Cornwell, Sir Charles Wyndham, 1st Baron Beresford,
Lady Carew, Paul Blouët, Nassr-ed-din, Shah of Persia, Countess
of Warwick, 1st Baron of Killowen, Mrs John Wood, John Tyndall,
Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold), Sir James Whitehead, Edward
White Benson , Julia Neilson, 1st Baron Grenfell.
All catalogued (Ax5439-Ax5474) |
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Album 29: Men and Women of the Day 1890
Edited by Bernard Capes
and Charles Eglington
Published by Eglington & Co.
Large red cloth bound volume, acquired 1892
Contains 36 Carbon prints by Barraud (including copies of portrait
by John Fergus and Eveleen Myers)
Sitters: Cardinal Manning, Marchioness of Dufferein and Ava,
Sir Eyre Massey Shaw, 1st Earl Lathom, Agnes Huntington, John
Stuart Blackie, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Eliza Lynn Linton,
William John Knox-Little, Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, Hope Temple,
Sir Edward Fry, Sir John Hare, Henrietta Stannard (John Strange
Winter), Christopher Newman Hall, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Isabel
Emery, William Powell Frith, Thomas Heazle Parke, Louise Jopling
Rowe, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Sir Henry Morton Stanley
(by John Fergus), Lady Stanley (by Eveleen Myers), William Grant
Stairs, William Holman Hunt, Rosalind Frances Ellicott, William
Black, James Moorhouse, Edith Scannell, William Edward Hartpole
Lecky, Fredrich Max-Muller, Dame Geneviève Ward, Sir William
Schwenk Gilbert, Charles Santley, Kate Rorke, James Payn.
All catalogued (Ax5477A-x5511) |
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Album 30: Men and Women of the Day 1891
Edited by Bernard Capes
and Charles Eglington
Published by Eglington & Co.
Large red cloth bound volume, acquired 1892
Contains 36 Carbon prints by Barraud
Sitters: Charles John Ellicott, Marion Terry, Sir Charles Tupper,
John Walter, Miss Fortescue (by Lafayette), Samuel Plimsoll,
1st Baron Playfair, Katharine Sarah Macquoid, Coventry Patmore,
1st Earl St Aldwyn, Margaret Mary Cooke (Dilke), Walter Crane,
9th earl of Coventry, Lady Monckton, William Day, Alfred Williams
Momerie, Hilda Wilson, Hermann Vezin, 1st Baron Alcester, Charlotte
Thudichum, Sir James Charles Mathew, William II of Germany, Countess
of Aberdeen and Temair, Sir Graham Berry, Sir Frank Lockwood,
Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre, Clifford Harrison, Charles
Grant Blairfindie Allen, Godiva Marian Thorold, Sir Arthur Kekewich,
Justine McCarthy, Annie Besant (transferred to Sitters Mt 5),
(Henry) Austin Dobsson, Prince Henry of Battenberg, Sir George
and Lady Henschel, James Sexton Simonds.
All catalogued (Ax5512 - Ax5547) |
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Album 31: Men and Women of the Day 1893
Published by Eglington & Co.
Large red and gold cloth bound volume
Presented by Henry C Burland, October 1986
Contains 36 Carbon prints mostly by Barraud (where photographer
not indicated) and Mayall & Co.
Sitters: 2nd Baron Houghton (by Lafayette), Lady Isabella Somerset
(by Mendelssohn), Robert Buchanan, John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron
Gorell of Brampton, Charlotte Yonge, 1st Baron Kelvin, Fanny
Brough, Jerome Jerome, 5th Earl Cadogan, Florence Miller, George
Du Maurier, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee, Frances Willard (by
Alice Hughes), Sir Hubert Von Herkomer, Sir William Hunter, Helen
Gladstone, George Grossmith, Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of
Meath (by Mayall & Co), Constance Gordon-Cumming, Samuel
Reynolds Hole (by Mayall & Co), Sir Francis McClintock(by
Mayall & Co), Beatrice Campbell (née Tanner) (by Mayall
& Co), John Edward Redmond (by Mayall & Co), 2nd Duke
of Abercorn (by Mayall & Co), Beatrix Jane, Countess Cadogan
(by Mayall & Co), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Herbert Vaughan
(by Mayall & Co), Madame Belle Cole (by Mayall & Co),
Sir Robert Ball (by Mayall & Co), Sir William Olpherts, Jessie
Bond, Sir William Cusins, Andrew Lang (by Mayall & Co), Catharine
Grace Loch (by Mayall & Co), Sir John Robinson (by Mayall
& Co).
All catalogued (Ax27630 - Ax27665) |
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Album
32: National Photographic Record, Volume 1
Large white leather and black cloth bound volume, compiled 1915
of existing stock of John Russell and Sons, Baker Street including
pre 1915 portraits.
Contains 228 platinum prints
Sitters include King George V, Balfour, G.K.Chesterton, Arthur
Conan Doyle, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, George Grossmith,
Earl Haig, Jerome K.Jerome, W.s.Landor, Alice Meynell, Eden Phillpotts,
A.W.Pinero, Lord Roberts, G.B. Shaw and Sir John French
Catalogued by Vivien Hamley in October 1992 as Ax39000 - Ax39229
Album 33: National Photographic
Record, Volume 2
Companion volume to Album 32 with historical pre 1915 photographs
by John Russell and Sons before their collaboration with the
National Portrait Gallery.
Contains 55 platinum prints
Sitters include George Alexander, Lord Baden-Powell, Weedon Grossmith,
H.Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy and Edward Poynter
Catalogued in November 1992 by Vivien Hamley as Ax46101 - Ax46155
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Album 34: Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball
July 2nd 1897
A collection of Portraits in Costume of some of the Guests
See Collections for more details |
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Album 35: Howard
Instead Album
Photographs of the 1910s and early 1920s
Mainly of actresses but also including pictorialist studies of
unidentified children
Sitters include Mrs Patrick Campbell, Marie Lohr, Lillah McCarthy,
Sybil Thondike, Peggy O'Neill, Fay Compton, Athene Seyler, Edna
Best, Phyllis Dare, Constance Collier and Basil Rathbone in costume
for Peter Ibbotson, Meggie Albanesi, Jean Cadell, Gyles Isham,
Hilda Trevelyan, Haidee Wright, Gladys Cooper, Lena Ashwell,
Baroness Von Hugel, and Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith
(Reproduced in Camera Portraits)
Catalogued as Ax20446 and Ax24970 - Ax25010
Purchased 1983 |
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Album 36: Foulsham & Banfield Ltd
Frank Foulsham &
A.C. Banfield, Photographers
An indexed book of contracts previously owned by Foulsham &
Banfield of agreements with leading actresses of the Edwardian
period to sit exclusively for portraits with the photographers
for fixed periods, as well as contracts with the Rotary Photographic
Company to produce postcards of selected poses from the sittings.
Includes contracts with: Nell Carter, Agnes Fraser, Carrie Moore,
Dorothy Dunbar, Kathleen Courtney, Ida Lytton, Ellaine Terriss,
Enid Leslie, Isabel Jay, Margaret Wilson, Gabrielle Ray, Marie
Studholme, Ruth Vincent, Jose Collins, Phyllis & Zena Dare,
Gladys Cooper, Denise Orme, Adrienne Augarde, Violet Englefield,
Hetty King, C. Hayden Coffin, Daisy Jerome, Vesta Tilley and
Lord Pirrie.
Also contains loosely inserted patent claims and legal points
to be considered by counsel relating to copyright infringements
of postcards of Edward VII.
Purchased 1985. |
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Album 37: England's
Beautiful Women
Limited edition de luxe, published by Bassano Ltd., 1909
Contains 61 photogravures mainly of photographs by Bassano (28)
and others including H.W. Barnett, Keturah Collings Lallie Charles,
W. and D. Downey, Alice Hughes, Lafayette, Rita Martin, Speaight,
F.A.Swaine
Sitters include Queen Alexandra, Viscountess Curzon, Duchess
of Hamilton, Duchess of Norfolk, Duchess of Marlborough, Princess
of Pless and Lady Randolph Churchill |
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Album 38: Twist Album
Large green cloth and
brown leather album acquired from Edith M. Twist.
Contains 135 photographs, mainly carte de visites and woodburytypes,
plus engravings, autographs, biographies and crests.
Subjects include: David Brewster, John Bright, Lord Brougham,
Wilkie Collins, George Cruikshank, William Jenner, W.M. Thackeray,
Trollope, Cobden, Tennyson, J.A. Roebuck, Lord Shaftesbury, Cardinals
Newman and Manning, Paxton, Kitchener, Gladstone, Rowland Hill,
Kingsley and Irving.
Acquired, 1946
Catalogued, September 1992. |
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Album 39: Portraits and Autographs - Herbert
Fry's Picture Gallery
(National Gallery of
Photographic Portraits 1857-8)
Large white leather and red-marbled cloth bound volume.
Contains 28 albumen print photographs by Herbert Watkins and
Maull & Polyblank, plus printed biographies with hand written
biographical notes, autographed letters from sitters including
refusals for sittings, etc.
Sitters include: Palmerston, Lord Brougham, Samuel Wilberforce,
Douglas Jerrold, Walter Savage Landor, Millais, Macaulay and
Robert Stephenson.
Facsimile signatures on mounts.
Catalogued and photographed.
see Gertrude M. Prescott Fame and Photography: Portrait Publications
in Great Britain, 1856-1900, Doctoral thesis, 1985, for University
of Texas, Chapter IV for full discussion of contents and importance
of album.
Acquired 1965. |
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Album 40: Cunnington Collection
Large brown leather photograph
album Given by Mrs Phyllis Cunnington.
Contains 198 albumen carte-de-visite prints by various photographers
including: Elliott & Fry, H.J. Whitlock, Samuel A. Walker,
John Watkins, London Stereoscopic Company, Henri Claudet, J.R.
Sawyer, R.W. Thrupp, Le Jeune, L. Angerer, Bertall, Mayer &
Pierson and Morgan and G.M. Lege. Also with some autograph letters
from sitters.
Sitters include: Faraday, Darwin, Huxley, J.S. Mill, Tennyson,
Browning, Matthew Arnold, Kingsley, Dickens, Trollope, Millais,
Herschel, Holman Hunt, J.H. Newman & Mark Twain.
Catalogued. Given 1962 |
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Album 41: album of photographs purchased 1949
Large red leather album.
Contains 192 carte de visites photographs by various photographers
including John Beattie, Hyman Davis, W & D Downey, Ernest
Edwards, F. Joubert, Maull & Polyblank, Mayall, Moira &
Haigh, J. Magill, T. Rodger, Silvy, J. Valentine, Window &
Bridge.
Sitters include: Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, Dickens, Holman Hunt,
Tennyson, Thackeray, Trollope, various Bishops and Generals and
some American Civil War personalities.
Catalogued 1979, in poor condition
Purchased from Myers & Co, December 1949 |
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Album 42: Eykin Album
Large dark green leather
album with brass clasps. Leather panel inside cover is engraved:
'Given to Mr and the Hon Mrs Eykin on their marriage by the pupils
of the Windsor British Schools, November 28th 1868'.
Contains 184 carte de visite photographs by various photographers
including Notman, Disderi, Fratelli D'Allessandri, Frank Haes,
Numa Blanc, Clarkington, W. Runicles & Sons, Michele Mang,
T. Cranfield Elsden, Silvy, Hennah & Kent, Naudin and Claudet
Sitters include: 7th Duke of Atholl, 1st Baron Chelmsford, Sir
Daniel Gooch, 13th Viscount Gormanston, Sir Piers Mostyn, 4th
or 5th Marquess of Sligo, Agnes Strickland and 6th Baron Vaux
of Harrowden.
Catalogued, 8 page annotated index compiled by Vivien Hamley.
Purchased from Mr Hayward, 1976. |
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Album 43: M.I.B Album
Bellasis family album.
Large green leather bound album inscribed M.I.B. on front cover.
Contains 190 carte-de-visite and other small albumen prints.
Sitters include: Duke of Norfolk, Joseph Toynbee, English aristocracy,
Roman Catholic clergy.
Photographs by Madame Brunner, Henry Danbray, Disderi, Edge,
Joubert, T. Granfield, Hills & Saunders, Le Gray, Parisian
School of Photography, H.P. Robinson, Southwell Brothers, Verneuil,
A.S. Watson, George White and others.
Family tree and 8-page annotated index of sitters compiled by
Vivien Hamley.
Purchased in 1976 from Mr Hayward. |
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Album 44: Photographs, Portraits, Vol. 1
Large format dark green
and gold cloth and leather album.
Contains 78 large format albumen and 1 salt print mounted on
white card pages with identification in black ink below image.
Sitters include: Prince Albert, Queen Victoria, Lord Brougham,
Gladstone, Livingstone, Faraday, Palmerston, Dickens, Shaftesbury,
Tennyson, Thackeray, Carlyle, Millais and Cardinal Wiseman.
N.B. Livingstone and Charles Barry reproduced in Camera Portraits
Photographers include: Mayall, Maull & Polyblank.
Catalogued, 1979. Acquired before 1938. |
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Album 45: Photographs,
Portraits, Vol. 2
Companion album to no.
44. Large format dark green and gold cloth, leather bound album.
Contains 57 albumen prints on 38 numbered pages including carte
and cabinet card sizes pasted onto white card pages, remainder
of pages blank.
Sitters include: Charles Kean, George Cruikshank, H.W. Longfellow,
Lord Lytton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward VII, and George V and
foreign royalty.
Catalogued. Acquired before 1938. |
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Album 46: Wilberforce Album, Vol. 1
Large format cloth and
leather album titled "Photographs" on spine and cover.
Contains 1012 cartes-de-visite and other small albumen prints
(also one photograph on leather) on 94 pages
Subjects include: composite photographs, sculpture, landscape,
buildings, family groups, missionaries and other Churchmen, Tasmanians,
native American Indians, Church Congress 1862. Plus 2 engravings.
Sitters include: Samuel Wilberforce (very many) and family, John
Keble, the Liddell family, the Gladstone family, 7th Earl of
Shaftesbury, William Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Queen Victoria
and family, Michael Faraday, George Peabody.
Given by Rippon College, Cuddeson, 1977
(Ax9508-Ax10099/ Ax68001-Ax68194) |
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Album 47: Wilberforce
Album, Vol. 2
Large format cloth and
leather album titled "Photographs" on spine.
Contains 366 carte de visite and other sized mainly albumen prints.
Subjects include: family of Samuel Wilberforce, churchmen, church
congresses and synods, foreign royalty, landscapes and buildings
and Francis Russell Nixon's photographs of the last Tasmanians.
Other sitters include: Lord Derby, Gladstone, Ruskin, Holman
Hunt, Browning and Mark Lemon.
Checklist in preparation.
Given by Rippon College, Cuddeson, 1977. |
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Albums
48-58 - Howard Coster Display Albums
Compiled by the photographer
and numbered 1-12. NPG lacks Volume 6. All catalogued.
Large black cloth bound volumes, bearing inscription on the front:
"Howard Coster: Photographer of Men", with volume number
on spine.
Album 48 - Vol 1
Contains 21 large bromide
prints, various processes including transferrotypes, sepia and
cream-toned, semi-matt finish.
All prints from 1926, the year Coster opened his studio in London
at 8-9 Essex Street, near the Strand.
Sitters include: J.B. Priestley, Gerald Bullett, Simon Elwes,
A.A. Milne, and Christopher Robin, G.K. Chesterton, Sir Sefton
Brancker and Joseph Thorpe
Album 49 - Vol 2
Contains 20 prints 1927-1929
including Alfred Noyes, Algernon Blackwood, Beverley Nichols,
A.A. Milne, Henry Ainley, Edgar Wallace, Sir Alan Cobham and
Edward McKnight Kauffer
Album 50 - Vol 3
Contains 23 prints, 1928-1937
Sitters include: Arnold Bennett, E.V. Knox, Eric Gill, John Johnson,
E. Phillips Oppenheim, Arthur Wontner, A.P. Herbert, Sir Philip
Sassoon, Douglas Byng, Somerset Maugham and Sir Thomas Lipton.
Album 51 - Vol 4
Contains 23 prints, 1927-1931
Sitters include: Frank Dobson, Hannen Swaffer, Fred Pegram, E.
Albert Cox and Macdonald Gill
Album 52 - Vol 5
Contains 23 prints 1927-1937
Sitters include: Norman Marshall, Hugh Quigley, Hugo Massac Buist,
C.H. Dudley Ward, Count Ottokar Czernin.
Album 53 - Vol 7
Contains 23 prints 1927-1935
Sitters include: Kinge George V, G.B. Shaw, T.E. Lawrence, J.A.
Mollison, Chaliapin, Hugh Walpole, Sir William Orpen, John Buchen,
Osbert Sitwell, H.E. Bates, Thomas Burke and Baron Hoyningen-Huene.
Album 54 - Vol 8
Contains 22 prints, 1926-1934
Sitters include: Sir Bernard Partridge, Gilbert Spencer, E.H.
Shephard, James Laver, Stephen King-Hall, Godfrey Winn, Somerset
Maugham, G.L. Stampa and Septimus E. Scott.
Album 55 - Vol 9
Contains 20 prints, 1930-1935
Sitters include: Robert Lynd, J.B. Morton, H.R. Tomalin, Adrian
Boult, Leon Goosens, Starr Wood, C.E.M. Joad, Howard Spring and
Lord Castlerosse.
Album 56 - Vol 10
Contains 23 prints, 1934-5
Sitters include: Aldous Huxley, T.F. Powys, Havelock Ellis, Compton
Mackenzie, Humbert Wolfe, Arthur Bryant, J. Middleton Murry,
Charles Morgan and William Plomer.
Album 57 - Vol 11
Contains 21 prints, 1931-1936
Sitters include: W.B. Yeats, J.D. Beresford, Laurence Housman,
H.G. Wells, Maurice Baring, Laurence Binyon, Herbert Read, Cyril
Bird (Fougasse)
Album 58 - Vol 12
Contains 28 prints mainly
of lawyers and soldiers, the majority unidentified.
Indentified sitters: Archibald Crawford, Richard Elwes, Harry
Bickmore, M.R. James.
Uncatalogued.
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Album 59: The Jocelyn
Album
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 (nee 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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Album 60: Jubilee Album
Large brown leather album.
On album front embossed inscription reads 'Lord Provost, Magistrates,
Office Bearers and Councillors holding office during her Majesty's
Jubilee 1887'.
Contains 18 panel photographs on printing-out-paper (P.O.P) and
33 cabinet photographs on P.O.P of dignitaries of the City of
Glasgow. All the Photographs by Turnbull and Sons.
Purchased by the National Portrait Gallery c.1975
To be catalogued. |
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Album 61: Views
Small black leather album with paper label marked views on spine
Contains 9 topographical cartes-de-visites of Bath Abbey, Clifton
Suspension Bridge, and 1 dog
Bequeathed by Sir George Scharf |
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Album 62: Richard
Cockle Lucas Album
Small dark green leather bound carte sized album with brass clasps,
containing 42 photographs of the sculptor Lucas Richard Cockle
Lucas
Inscription at front "Some of the phases and works of R
C Lucas Sculptor done to show the great range of his expression"
In various postures and costumes the cartes are captioned as
follows "As a Martyr to the Truth, As a Devotee of Art,
He is Ready for Adventure, He goes on his travels, As a Hopeful
Lover, As a Disappointed One, As an Impudent Man, As a Sensible
One," etc and 7 photographs of his sculptures and I photograph
of potatoes
N.B. another Lucas album is in the collection of George Eastman
House, Rochester New York |
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Album 63: Portraits
of the Revisors of the New Testament
26 albumen carte-sized prints by Samuel A. Walker mounted on
to card pages and published in 1874
Sitters include Charles John Ellicot, George Moberley, Edward
Henry Bickerteth, Arthur Penryhn Stanley, Richard Chenevix Trench,
Charles Wordsworth, Josef Angus, Benjamin Hall Kennedy, Joseph
Barber Lightfoot and William Milligan.
Purchased August 1984
Acquisition numbers Ax29229 - Ax29254 |
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Album 64: Portraits
of the Revisors of the Old Testament
27 albumen carte-sized prints by Samuel A Walker mounted on to
card pages and published in 1874
Sitters include Alfred Ollivant, Connop Thirlwall, Robert Payne
Smith, Benjamin Harrison, Frederick Field, John Dury Geden, David
Christian Ginsburg, Joseph Rawson Lumby, William Aldis Wright.
Purchased August 1984
Catalogue numbers Ax29255 - Ax29281 |
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Album 65: Life
of the Earl of Beaconsfield Volume 1
Volume 1 of a 2-volume biography of Benjamin Disraeli, (Earl
of Beaconsfield) by Cornelius Brown,
Published by A.W. Cowan, 1881
Contains 14 woodburytype reproductions of photographs including
12 by the London Stereoscopic Co and one each by W.and D.Downey
and Messrs H.W. Taunt of Oxford .
Subjects are: The Earl of Beaconsfield, Exterior View of Hughenden
Manor, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Stafford Henry Northcote,1st
Earl of Iddesleigh, Richard Assheton Cross,1st Viscount Cross,
William Henry Smith, Lord John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland,
4th Earl of Carnarvon, Lord George Francis Hamilton, George Ward
Hunt ,George Slater- Booth, 1st Baron Basing, Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy,
1st Earl of Cranbrook and Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl
of Derby.
Purchased 1973.
Acquisition numbers Ax27779 - Ax27791 |
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Album 66: Life
of the Earl of Beaconsfield
An appreciative life of the Right Hon. The Earl of Beaconsfield
A Statesman of 'Light and Leading'
With Portraits of his Contemporaries, edited by Cornelius Brown,
F>R>S>L
Illustrated with permanent photographs
Published by A.W.Cowan of 30 and 31 New Bridge Street, Ludgate
Hill and Charles Wheatley of Peter Gate, Nottingham, 1881
Volume 2 of album 65
Contains 13 woodburytypes including 11 photographs by the London
Stereoscopic Company and 2 by Messrs H.W. Taunt and Co of Oxford
Sitters include 6th Duke of Richmond, Lord Frederick Charles
Cavendish, Lord Randolph Churchill, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton,
1st Earl of Lytton, 15th Earl of Derby, 3rd Duke of Buckingham,
Edward.Stanhope, Lord Charles William De La Poer Beresford,1st
Baron, Alexander James Beresford-Hope, the 7th Duke of Marlborough,
Baron Wantage, The Grave of Lord Beaconsfield (Photograph by
H.W. Taunt of Oxford) and
Group taken at Hughenden Manor, which includes Baron Corry, 3rd
Earl of Bradford, 1st Earl of Wharncliffe, Countess of Bradford,
Countess of Wharncliffe, Earl of Beaconsfield and the 13th Earl
of Pembroke (also by Taunt of Oxford)
Purchased 1973. Rebound in March 1995 and photographs separated
into slipcase.
Acquisition numbers Ax27792 - Ax27804 |
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Album
67: Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists
Dark blue leather bound book with gold decoration with title
page details:
Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists
Comprising twelve unabridged essays by Irving, Lamb, De Quincey,
Emerson, Arnold, Morley, Lowell, Carlyle, Macaulay, Froude, Freeman,
and Gladstone
With Twelve Portraits in Permanent Photography (by or copied
by Elliott and Fry)
(Images not from photographs include Washington Irving from painting
by G.S. Newton engraved by C Turner; Thomas De Quincey from a
painting by Sir J W Gordon, Lord Macaulay from a drawing by George
Richmond
Photograph of Edward A. Freeman originally by Frear of Ithaca,
USA
And photograph of John Morley by London Stereoscopic Co
Published by Bickers and Son, Leicester Square, London, 1886
NB Plates have pencilled on Elliott and Fry copy negative reference
numbers.
In blue leather binding with gold lettering
Acquisition numbers Ax27805 - Ax27812 |
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Album 68: Poems of W.B.Yeats
William Butler Yeats Poems : Second Series
Book of 162 pages published by A.H. Bullen, London and Statford-on-Avon,1909
Contains 1 photogravure portrait of W.B.Yeats by Alvin Langdon
Coburn
Acquistion number Ax35903
Purchased 1977 |
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Album 69
Small blue leather album without spine with "Album"
stamped in gold on cover
Contains 107 albumen prints mainly reproductions of paintings,
some tographical and some microphotographs
Sitters include Queen Victoria and her family. |
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Album
70: Portraits Contemporains 1897
Published by Librarie Nilsson, 212, Rue de Rivoli, Paris
Contains 2000 tiny reproductions of contemporary photographs
(25 per page)
Including European Royalty, dancers, musicians, writers etc.
Acquired in 1943
Album 71: Portraits Contemporains 1898
Companion to album 70
Contains 2400 reproductions of contemporary portrait photographs
Album 72: Portrait Contemporains
1899
Dark red leather volume
published by the Librarie Nillson, Paris.
Contains 2425 tiny thumbprint reproductions of portrait photographs
from the 1890s
Sitters include actresses, European royalty, dancers, writers,
musicians, soldiers
Acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, 1943
Album 73: Portraits Contemporains
1900
Dark red leather volume
published by the Librarie Nillson, Paris.
Contains 2300 tiny reproductions of portrait photographers from
the 1890s
Sitters include actresses, European royalty, dancers, writers,
musicians, soldiers
Acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, 1943
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Album 74: Calotypes by Hill and Adamson
Large red cloth-bound
volume of carbon versions of Hill & Adamson's portraits,
selected by Andrew Elliot. Number 14 of a limited edition of
38. Published privately in Edinburgh 1928.
Contains 47 carbon prints. Sitters include Hill, Adamson, William
Etty, Lady Eastlake etc with biographies.
Purchased from Sotheby's by the National Portrait Gallery, 1975
(Ax29500-Ax29546) |
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Album 75: Cotton Album
Photograph album of Francis
F. Cotton. Album with loose cover of dark brown American cloth.
Commencing January 1860.
Contains 125 salt and albumen prints, some hand-coloured, mostly
military subjects, royal engineers, officers, cadets, barracks
etc. Some views of Rochester, Chatham and Addiscombe and 5 watercolours
of yachts.
Sitters include Sir Frederick and Lady Abbott, Lt Gen Sir Gerald
Graham, Sir Cursetjee Jeejeebhoy, Sir John Burgoyne, Sir Harvey
Jones and Lord Clyde.
Acquired by the National Portrait Gallery during public appeal
as part of the Needham bequest, 1974. |
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Album 76: Theatricals Album
Large dark blue cloth
and leather album, spine labelled 'Theatricals'.
Contains 17 large albumen prints of a production of 'The New
Forest' operetta and 35 more albumen and platinum prints of other
productions together with school groups, equestrian portraits
and royalty and one loose print on P.O.P of a South African view.
Sitters include Col. Younger, Admiral Aitchison, the Holloway
family, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and family, the Duchess
of Albany.
Acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, 1960 |
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Album 77: Llewellyn Davies Album
Dark brown calf-bound
album in dark brown leather box. Album compiled and possibly
partially photographed by Sir J M Barrie. Album consists entirely
of copy prints made and stamped by Lizzie Caswall Smith.
Contains 54 sepia-toned platinum prints ( copies of drawings
by George Du Maurier and others and photographs) of Sylvia Llewellyn
Davies, her life and family. The Llewellyn Davies children provided
the inspiration for Barrie's play Peter Pan. A letter from Barrie
to Miss Marjorie Morse is in the interior pocket.
Purchased from Sotheby's by the National Portrait Gallery, 1973
(Ax45600-Ax45645) |
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Album 78: Men of Mark, Volume 1, 1876
Green and gold cloth
bound volume entitled 'Men of Mark: contemporary portraits of
distinguished men' with biographical notes by Thompson Cooper.
Published 1876 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.
Contains 37 woodburytypes by Lock and Whitfield.
Sitters include Edward VII, Samuel Plimsoll, Garnet Wolseley,
Cardinal Manning,
J E Millais, Lord Shaftesbury, John Bright.
(Ax17476-Ax17511) |
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Album 79: Men of Mark, Volume 2, 1877
Green and gold cloth
bound volume entitled 'Men of Mark: contemporary portraits of
distinguished men' with biographical notes by Thompson Cooper.
Published 1877 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.
Contains 36 woodburytypes by Lock and Whitfield.
Sitters include Lord Leighton, Victor Hugo, Sir Stafford Northcote,
George Biddell Airy, Thomas Woolner, Gustave Doré.
(Ax17512-Ax17547) |
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Album 80: Men of Mark, Volume 3, 1878
Green and gold cloth
bound volume entitled 'Men of Mark: contemporary portraits of
distinguished men' with biographical notes by Thompson Cooper.
Published 1878 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.
Contains 36 woodburytypes by Lock and Whitfield.
Sitters include Anthony Trollope, Richard Owen, Max Müller,
Robert Lowe, Charles Darwin.
(Ax17548-Ax17583) |
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Album 81: Men of Mark, Volume 4, 1880
Green and gold cloth
bound volume entitled 'Men of Mark: contemporary portraits of
distinguished men' with biographical notes by Thompson Cooper.
Published 1880 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.
Contains 37 woodburytypes by Lock and Whitfield.
Sitters include Frederick III of Germany, C H Spurgeon, Edward
Poynter, William P Frith, H M Stanley, Thomas Huxley, Myles Birket
Foster, Thomas Faed.
(Ax17584-Ax17620) |
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Album 82: Men of Mark, Volume 5, 1881
Green and gold cloth
bound volume entitled 'Men of Mark: contemporary portraits of
distinguished men' with biographical notes by Thompson Cooper.
Published 1881 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.
Contains 36 woodburytypes by Lock and Whitfield.
Sitters include Disraeli, John Arthur Roebuck, Harrison Ainsworth,
Wilkie Collins, Robert Browning, Alma-Tadema, Joseph Chamberlain.
(Ax17622-Ax17656) |
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Album 83: Men of Mark, Volume 6, 1882
Green and gold cloth
bound volume entitled 'Men of Mark: contemporary portraits of
distinguished men' with biographical notes by Thompson Cooper.
Published 1882 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.
Contains 36 woodburytypes by Lock and Whitfield.
Sitters include Gladstone, Philip Calderon, G F Watts, Sir Frederick
Roberts, Frederick Pickersgill.
Acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, 1883
(Ax17657-Ax17692) |
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Album 84: Men of
Mark, Volume 7, 1883
Green and gold cloth
bound volume entitled 'Men of Mark: contemporary portraits of
distinguished men' with biographical notes by Thompson Cooper.
Published 1882 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.
Contains 36 woodburytypes by Lock and Whitfield.
Sitters include Norman Shaw, Sir Evelyn Wood, Sir Michael Costa,
W F Yeames, Lord Tennyson, Irving, J E Boehm, Frank Dicksee.
Acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, 1883
(Ax17693-Ax17728) |
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Album 85: Life
Josiah Mason .
Josiah Mason: A Biography by John Thackray Bunce
Printed for private circulation
By the " Journal " Printing Works, Birmingham, 1882
169 pages of text and with an albumen portait photograph as frontispiece
Acquisition number Ax3775
Purchased 1977 |
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Album 86: Biographies
by Lord Macaulay
Small red calf-bound volume with title page:
Biographies by Lord Macaulay contributed to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica with notes his parliamentary connections with Edinburgh
and extracts from his letters and speeches. Published by Adam
and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1863
With one albumen print photograph of Macaulay by Maull and Polyblank
as frontispiece, with a facsimilie inscription and autograph.
Book with 325 pages of text. Purchased for library in 1978.
Acquisition number Ax7346 |
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Album 87-91: The
Cabinet Portrait Gallery Volumes 1-5.1890-4
Five red cloth bound volumes, published by Cassell and Co.
Each containing 36 carbon prints of photographs by W. and D.Downey
mounted on card pages with accompanying biographical text on
each sitter.
Sitters in volume one( 1890) include Sarah Bernhardt, King George
V, Mary Anderson, Edward V11, Lillie Langtry, Thomas Henry Huxley,
Millicent Fawcett, Lord Leighton,
Volume two (1891): Queen Alexandra, Princess Beatrice, George
Du Maurier, Duke of Clarence, Emily Faithfull, Sir Squire Bancroft,
Oscar Wilde
Volume three (1892) : Queen Victoria, Alfred Duke of Edinburgh,
J.M. Barrie, Queen Mary, Julia Neilson, Hall Caine, Beerbohm
Tree, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson.
Volume four (1893) : Princess Beatrice, Henry Irving, Frank Dicksee,
Jerome K.Jerome, George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb, Baron Passfield,
and the wedding group of King George V and Queen Mary
Volume five (1894): Arthur Wing Pinero, Queen Alexandra, Lady
Bancroft, Sir John Hare, Thomas Hardy, Arthur James Balfour,
1st Earl Balfour. |
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Albums 92-94: Men
of Eminence Volume 1-3, 1863-5
Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science, and Art
With Biographical Memoirs.
The Photographs from life, by Ernest Edwards, B.A.
Edited by Lovell Reeve, F.L.S
Published by .
Volume 1
Published by Lovell Reeve and Co., 5,Henrietta Street, Covent
Garden, London.1863
Contains full-length studies, standing or seated of following
subjects:
Edward Hodges Bailey, William Sterndale Bennett, Robert Browning,
George Cruikshank, Michael Faraday, James Fergusson, William
Fergusson, John Henry Foley, John Edward Gray, James Orchard
Halliwell, Solomon Alexander Hart, Sir William Jackson Hooker,
Thomas Henry Huxley, Robert Gordon Latham, Sir Charles Lyell,
Frederick Denison Maurice, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Richard
Owen, David Roberts, George Gilbert Scott, Earl Stanhope, William
Makepeace Thackeray, Reverend William Whewell, Sir Gardner Wilkinson
Acquisition numbers Ax13820 - Ax13843 |
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Album 93: Men of
Eminence, Volume 2
Publication details as for Volume 1 (Album 92)
Published 1864
Contains photographs from life by Ernest Edwards of :
Julius Benedict, Alex J. Beresford-Hope, Rev M.J. Berkeley, James
Scott Bowerbank, W.B. Carpenter, Hugh Cuming, Thomas Faed, John
Gould, Dr Hooker, Robert Hunt, Sir James Randal Martin, Matthew
Fontaine Maury, William Allen Miller, Antonio Panizzi, John Pye,
Major-General Sir H.C. Rwawlinson, Sir George Thomas Smart, Rt.
Rev. Bishop of St.David's, Thomas Thorneycroft, John Tyndall,
Samuel Warren, John Obadiah Westwood, Forbes Winslow, Thomas
Woolner
Acquisition numbers Ax13901 - Ax13923 |
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Album 94: Men of
Eminence, Volume 3
Publication details as for album 92
Published by Alfred William Bennett, 5, Bishopsgate Without,
London E.C.,1865.
With photographs from life by Ernest Edwards
(As listed on contents page) David Thomas Ansted, Charles Cardale
Babington, Sir George Back, Sir John Fox Burgoyne, Richard Burton,
Samuel Hunter Christie, Sir James Clark, Warren De La Rue, Sir
DE Lacy Evans, Hugh Falconer, William Farr, Admiral Fitzroy,
George Godwin, Thomas Graham, William Robert Grove, John Hawkshaw,
John Hulah, Edwin Lankester, Bishop of Lichfield, Sir William
Edmund Logan, Lord Lyttleton, Richard Partridge, Martin Farquhar
Tupper.
Acquisition numbers Ax14756 - Ax14779 |
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Album 95: Eminent
Men of the Day
Eminent Men of the Day, Photographed by
George Charles Wallich, M.D., Scientific Series.
Book published by John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, London. 1870
Contains carte de visite sized albumen prints mounted on card
pages of:
Sir Edward Sabine, Sir Richard Owen,George Bentham, Thomas Henry
Huxley, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Bt.,John
Tyndall, Sir William Edmund Logan, William Stokes, Sir Abndrew
Crombie Ramsay, 9th Marquess of Tweedale,
William Lassell, Sir Joseph Prestwich, Joseph Bancroft Reade.
Note: Plate 2 of Sir Roderick William Impey Murchison is missing.
Also contains pasted in newscutting "Opinions of the Press"
quoting reviews from Examiner, Nature, Pall
Mall Gazette, Graphic, Daily Telegraph, Annals
of Natural History, Chemical News and Land
and Water (various dates June and July 1870)
Presented by Granville Proby (nephew-in-law of Sir John Tyndall),
December 1944 |
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Album 96: Hoadley
Album
Modern album made up of black plastic with ring binder, compiled
and presented by Michael Hoadley in 1978.
Contains 16 carbon prints and woodburytpes remounted on new card.
Sitters include Lord Avebury, Captain Burnaby, Lord George Hamilton,
Louise Jopling and Mrs Lynn Linton.
Acquisition numbers Ax8704 - Ax8719 |
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Album 97: Lytton Strachey Album
White decorated batik-type paper covered album, with vellum spine
possibly covered by Dora Carrington. (Similar album in Frances
Patridge's Collection)
Contains 36 snapshot photographs of Lytton Strachey and his brothers
James and Oliver and friends
Sitters include Augustus John, Henry Lamb, George Mallory, Virginia
Woolf and Lady Ottoline Morrell including photographs taken by
the latter
Acquisition numbers Ac13002 - Ax13034
Purchased from the Strachey Trust, 1979 |
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Album 98: James and Alix Strachey Album
Landscape shape black coloured snapshot albums of the 1920s
Containing photographs of James and Alix Strachey and their friends
and relations including, John Banting, Lytton Strachey and Dora
Carrington, Philip Sargent-Florence and other family members
and many miscellaneous photographs of animals and travel scenes.
Acquired as part of the Strachey Trust purchase in 1979
Partially catalogued as Ax24018-Ax24023 and Ax24026 - Ax 24030 |
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Album 99: Hollings Album
Contains 187 carte de visite photographs by various photographers
including
Sitters include Browning, Carlyle, Dickens, Faraday, Gladstone,
Irving Lear, Livingstone, Ruskin, Shaftesbury, Swinburne, Trollope
Purchase from Frank Hollings in 1959 |
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Album 100: Untitled Album
Contains 115 cartes and 7 cabinet photographs
Sitters include British and foreign royalty and Disraeli, Plimsoll,
Gladstone, Bright, Palmerston, Kingsley, Baroness Burdett-Coutts,
Also contains a number of topographical carte.
Acquisition numbers Ax 46156 - Ax46250. |
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Album 101: Nicholl Collection
Large dark purple leather album, purchased in 1962 from Mrs E.
Nicholl
Contains 67 cartes, many copied from engravings or paintings
by various photographers.
Sitters include Disraeli, Gladstone, Dickens, Livingstone, Darwin
and Mrs Gaskell.
Acquisition numbers Ax46251 - Ax46288 |
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Album 102: Presented 1939
Large brown leather album containing 168 cartes, presented anonymously
in 1939.
Sitters include The Royal Family, David Brewster, Thomas Hood,
William Holman Hunt, Sir Edwin Landseer, Florence Nightingale,
David Livingstone, Earl of Shaftesbury and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Typed index in front. |
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Album 103: Mrs Henry Arundell Album
Contains 69 carte de visite photographs of artists collected
by Mrs Arundell
Sitters include Thomas Faed, John Everett Millais, Pickergill,
Daniel Maclise, Landseer, Marochetti, Pickersgill, Leighton,
William Holman Hunt
Presented by Mr and Mrs Arundell Esdaile, 1932 |
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Album 104: Album of Artists, Volume 1
From Sir George Scharf's Collection
Contains 188 cartes by various photographers including
And 1 albumen print of Queen Alexandra and a letter from her
lady-in-waiting.
Also contains on page 3 a Hill and Adamson calotype
Sitters include John Ruskin, John Everett Millais, George Richmond,
William Etty, Daniel Maclise, Augustus Egg, Baron Marochetti,
Westmacott, Landseer, Watts, Calderon, William Powell Frith,
John Tenniel, Edward Burne-Jones |
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Album 105: Album of Artists, Volume 2
From the collection of Sir George Scharf. Contains 79 cartes
by various photographers and a few engravings and cartes of paintings.
Sitters include Thomas Landseer, Whymper, Colnaghi, Ingres, Rosa
Bonheaur, Gustave Dore, Winterhalter, Rousseau, |
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Album
106: Album of Artists, Volume 3
Green leather album, presented by D. S. Mc Coll, through the
N.A.C.F. of photographs collected by Miss Elizabeth Matthieson.
Contains 62 cartes of artists and others by various photographers.
Sitters include : Pickersgill, Landseer, Etty, Faed, Millais,
Holman Hunt, David Octavius Hill, W.P.Frith, G.F.Watts and Charles
Dickens. |
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Album 107: Andrews Album
Brown leather album containing 90 woodburytpes, 2 albumen cartes
and 1 hand-coloured carte, mostly of actors and singers with
some literary and political personalities, presented by Elizabeth
Jane Andrews.
Sitters include: Sir Squire Bancroft, J.B.Buckstone, Charles
Wyndham, Thomas Carlyle, Lady Bancroft, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry,
Samuel Phelps and Kate Terry. |
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Album 108: Singers and Actors
Small crimson leather album with gilt clasps containing cartes
from the collection of Sir George Scharf and Algernon Graves,
presented by the latter in 1916
Contains 102 cartes, mostly of singers and actors and some topographical
subjects.
Sitters include Sir J.Benedict, J.B. Buckstone, Sir M. Costa,
the Kendals, E.A. Sothern, General and Mrs Tom Thumb. |
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Album 109: Keynes Album of Notabilities
Contains 43 cartes of singers and actors
Sitters include The Kendals, Sir Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, J.L.Toole,
Buckstone and Adelina Patti
Presented by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 1958 |
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Album 110: Hipkins Album
Small black album with gilt clasp and lacking spine cover containing
49 cartes, inscribed inside Jane.S.Hipkins, presented by Hipkins
in 1930.
Subjects include the artists John Everett Millais, William Morris
and a group photograph of William Bell Scott,John Ruskin and
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and portraits of musicians including
Liszt, Clara Schumann, and Sir George Grove. |
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Album 111: Athletes
Small dark green leather album with gilt clasps containing photographs
bequeathed by Sir George Scharf. Contains 9 photographs of athletes
including celebrated pedestrians and. Walker (swimmer), Shaw
(boxer) and Hatley (runner) mainly by George Newbold. Also contains
a 1 carte of 6th Earl Stanhope by the Hon Edward Stanhope taken
in August 1863
Note: Five subjects were illustrated in NPG exhibition catalogue
The Beautiful and The Damned (2001) on p31
Acquisition numbers Ax47087 - Ax47097 |
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Album 112: Distinguished Persons Vol 1 A-CH
Carte de visite album containing 49 cartes the majority collected
in the 1860s
By Sir George Scharf and 7 presented by Algernon Graves in 1916
Includes 4th Earl of Aberdeen, 1st July 1860 by Mayall to Lord
Randolph Churchill in 1862 by A.Ken and an interesting outdoor
group photograph of the 7th Earl of Carlisle and the Civil Service
Cricket Club at the Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin, 18th August 1863.
Inscribed and given to Scharf on 5 October 1863. Majority of
cartes bear Scharf inscriptions as to date or place and from
whom acquired
Acquisition numbers Ax5050 - Ax5098 |
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Album 113: Distinguished Persons, Volume II, CH-GL
Small crimson leather
album, gilt clasps, inscribed 'Mrs Scharf, from her affectionate
son, January 1st, 1863', and 'The photographers marked G.S were
bequesthed by Sir George Scharf. Those marked A.G. were presented
1916 by Algernon Graves.'
Contains 48 cartes-de-visite, one carte-de-visite copy of a painting
and 1 un-mounted woodburytype.
Sitters include Richard Cobden, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens,
Michael Faraday, Giuseppe Garibaldi, William Gladstone.
(Ax16227-Ax16275) |
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Album 114: Distinguished Persons, Volume III, GL-LO
Small dark green leather
album, gilt clasps.'The photographs marked G.G were bequeathed
by Sir George Scharf. Those marked A.G. were presented 1916 by
Algernon Graves'.
Contains 49 cartes-de-visite and one carte-de-visite from a painting.
Sitters include William Gladstone, Edward Kenealy, Sir Austen
Layard, 5th Marquess of Londonderry.
(Ax16391-Ax16439) |
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Album 115: Distinguished Persons, Volume IV LI-PA
Small olive-brown leather
album gilt clasps. Inscribed 'Miss Hicks from her affectionate
nephew, January 1st 1863' and 'The photographs marked G.S were
bequeathed by the first director Sir George Scharf. Those marked
A.G. were presented 1916 by Algernon Graves'.
Contains 46 cartes-de-visite.
Sitters include Baron Macaulay, Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale,
Sir Richard Owen, Lord Palmerston.
(Ax29641-Ax29687) |
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Album 116: Distinguished Persons, Volume V PA-SCH
Small purple leather
album. Inscribed 'The photographs marked G.S were bequeathed
by Sir George Scharf. Those marked A.G. were presented 1916 by
Algernon Graves.'
Contains 48 cartes-de-visite, one carte-de-visite of a drawing
and one oval calotype.
Sitters include George Peabody, Peter Roget, Earl Russell, Sir
George Scharf.
(Ax29941-Ax29989) |
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Album 117: Distinguished Persons, Volume VI
Large brown leather album
with gilt clasp. Inscribed 'Photographs marked G.S bequeathed
by Sir George Scharf. Those marked A.G. were presented 1916 by
Algernon Graves.'
Contains 64 cartes-de-visite, two cartes-de-visite from engravings
, 2 cabinet photographs and four strips of small portraits, six
paintings on each.
Sitters include Sir George Scharf, Captain Speedy and Alamayou,
Lord Stanhope, Dean Stanley, Archbishop Tait, Lord Alfred Tennyson,
William Thackeray, Orton (Tichborne claimant).
(Ax30341-Ax30404) |
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Album 118: Distinguished Persons, Volume VII
Small brown bound album
measuring 135 x 100 mm. Bequeathed by Sir George Scharf and presented
1916 by Algernon Graves.
Contains 11 cartes-de-visite some inscribed by Sir George Scharf
(friends and acquaintances).
Sitters include Cardinal Wiseman and Lord Wrottesley
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Album 119: Album of Royal Personages
Small dark brown leather album with gilt clasp
Inscribed "To my dearest mother 1st August 1868" and
"the photographs marked G.S. were bequeathed by the first
Director Sir George Scharf and those marked A.G. were presented
in 1916 by Algernon Graves.
Contains 32 cartes, 5 cartes from drawings and 1 unmounted albumen
print
Sitters include Napoleon 111, Prince Imperial, Leoplold 11 of
Belgium, King George of Greece and the Shah of Persia.
Acquisition numbers Ax38435 - Ax38472 |
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Album 120: Portraits of Legal Celebrities
Small dark brown leather album with gilt clasp, containing 52
cartes, presented by W.Palin Elderton in December 1934.
Sitters include Lord Westbury, Lord Hatherly, Sir Fitzroy Kelly,
Spencer Walpole, Roundel Palmer and Sir Richard Baggallay. |
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Album 121: Wright Album
Small dark red leather album with gilt clasps. Purchased from
S.J. Wright for £5 in 1976.
Contains 37 cartes of Anglican clergy including George Moberley
and Archibald Campbell Tait.
Acquisition numbers Ax 47049 - Ax 47086 |
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Album 122: Royal Family, Volume 1
51 numbered pages containing 49 cartes of Prince Albert,( pages
1-8) ,Edward V11, (pages 9-34), Queen Alexandra (pages 35-49)
and their family including Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence
and Prince George (later King George V)
Photographs by Oscar Gustav Rejlander, Camille Silvy, Mayall,
Southwell, Ghemar Freres, Joubert, Hills and Saunders, F.Deron
of Brussels, Window and Bridge, Levitsky Le Jeune, Charles Praetorius,
Bassano, E.Lange of Copenhagen, George E. Hansen, Bergamasco,
Jabez Hughes and Vernon Heath.
39 prints ex collection Sir George Scharf, and the remained ex
collection Algernon Graves. Presented by the latter in 1916.
Acquisition numbers Ax24141 - Ax24189 |
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Album 123: Royal Family Volume 2
Album 124: Royal Family Volume 3
Album 125: Photographs of the Royal Family
Album 126: Hipkins Collection of the Royal Family |
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Album 127: Men of the Day
Red leather album with gold embossing and black spine with blue
and yellow pages
Contains 73 prints including Grant Duff,Tom Hughes, Fawcett
Acquisition numbers Ax21831 - Ax21903 |
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Album 128: Album of Bishops and Distinguished
People
Album 129: Royalty and Nobility
Album 130: Jonathan Ruffer Album Volume 1
Album 131: Jonathan Ruffer Album Volume 2
Album 132: Men of Mark by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Album 133: More Men of Mark by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Album 134: More Men of Mark by Alvin Langdon Coburn (missing
plates) |
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Album 135: Modern British Composers by Herbert
Lambert
Modern British Composers: Seventeen Portraits by Herbert Lambert
With a Foreword on Contemporary British Music by Eugene Goosens
Published by F.and B. Goodwin Ltd. 1923
(Note: Printed at the Pelican Press. The plates in this volume
were prepared under the personal supervision of the Author, and
printed in Rotary Photogravure by the Rembrandt Intaglio Company.
Copies of the separate portraits may be obtained.)
The Contents: Sir Edward Elgar, Dame Ethel Smyth, Granville Bantock,
Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Roger Quilter, Rutland Boughton,
Josef Holbrooke, Frank Bridge, Cyril Scott, John Ireland, Lord
Berners, Arnold Bax, Armstrong Gibbs, Arthur Bliss, Herbert Howells,
Eugene Goosens
(NB Original silver bromide prints and variant poses of some
of these are contained in the Primary Collection and in the Elliott
and Fry Collection for which Lambert acted as chief operator
for a number of years.)
Acquired for National Portrait Gallery Library in 1955
Acquisition numbers x7741 -x7767 |
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Album 136: David Francis Album of MPs
Album 137: Frank Hollings Album
Album 138: The Royal Visit to Wolverhampton
Album 139: Myra Hess Album- My Memory Book
Album 140: Lord Battersea Aston Clinton Album
Album 141: J.P. Mayall's Artists at Home
Album 142: Thomas Annan's Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow
Album 143-5: Memoirs of Samuel Tuke Vols 1-3
Albums 146-175: Incomplete run of The Theatre 1879-1897 |
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Albums 146-175: Incomplete run of The Theatre 1879-1897 |
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Album 146
The Theatre: A Monthly
Review and Magazine
Volume 1 - New Series
August 1878 - January 1879
Published: Wyman and Sons, 81,
Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields,1878
458 pages with two paper mounted woodburytpes included in each
month's issue from photographs by Lock and Whitfield
1 August 1878 Ellen Terry, Henry
Irving
1 September 1878 Madge Robertson Kendal, W H Kendal
1 October 1878 Marie Litton and missing subject
1 November Marion Terry, Hermann Vezin
1 December 1878 Amy Roselle, William Farren
1 January 1879 Emily Fowler, Edward Terry
With 10 extra woodburytpes from subsequent numbers
Arthur Playfair (Nov 1892) Lena Ashwell (Mrs Arthur Playfair)
Feb 1896,
W H Denny, March 1892,Alice Lingard, August 1884, Emmeline Ormsby,
October 1881, Charles Fechter as Hamlet, September 1879, Ethel
Matthews, March 1892, Evelyn Millard, October 1892, and W G Elliott,
April 1893 and also a number of half-tone reproductions of other
photographs of actors
(Ax28260-Ax28281)
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Album 147
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts, edited by Clement
Scott.
Published by David Bogue, 3, St Matins Place, Trafalgar Square,
London 1883
New Series Volume 2 - July - December 1883
Contains woodburytype photographs specially taken for The Theatre
by the St James Photographic Company, 72, Piccadilly
July Kate Rorke, Hermann Vezin, August Marie Linden, E.S Willard,
September Ellen Terry, John Hare, October Kate Munroe, James
Fernandez, November Sophie Eyre, Hebert Standing, December Kate
Stanley, J.H.Barnes.
(Ax9273- Ax9284) |
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Album 148
Reserved for Volume 3
of The Theatre |
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Album 149
Reserved for Volume 4
of The Theatre |
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Album 150
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts.
Edited by Clement Scott, Published by David Bogue,27, King William
Street, Strand,1885
New Series Vol 5 January to June 1885
Woodburytype photographs taken specially for The Theatre by Window
and Grove, 63A, Baker Street, Barraud
Lillie Langtry in The Lady of Lyons, William Terriss as Romeo
in Romeo and Juliet, Jessie Bond, William Hill and William Sydney
Penley, Eleanor Calhoun, Thomas Thorne, Ada Cavendish, Sir George
Alexander, Kate Phillips, Zeffie Tilbury, Maude Millett, George
Grossmith.
(Ax29196-Ax29207) |
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Album 151
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts. Edited by Clement
Scott, Published by Carson and Comerford, Clement's House, Clement's
In Passage, Strand, W.C. 1885.
New Series Vol 6 June to December 1885
Woodburytype photographs taken specially for the Theatre by Barraud,
263, Oxford St.
A group from the Mikado: Sibyl Grey, Leonara Braham and Jessie
Bond (1853-1942), William Thomas, Sir Squire and Lady Marie Bancroft,
Florence Warden, John Sleeper Clarke (1833-1899), Mrs Lewis Waller
(Florence West, 1862-1913), Ellen Lancaster Wallis (Mrs Walter
Reynolds, 1856-1940), Edward Leman Blanchard (1820-1889), Laura
Linden, George Barrett, Charles Warner, Mary Eastlake.
(Ax29217-Ax29228) |
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Album 153
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts. Edited by Clement
Scott, Published by Carson and Comerford, Clement's House, Clement's
In Passage, Strand, W.C. 1886.
New Series. Vol 7 July to December 1886.
Woodburytype photographs taken specially for the Theatre by Barraud,
263, Oxford St.
Cissy Grahame, Yorke Stevens,
Lady Monckton, James Lewis (1837/40-96) and Mrs George Henry
Gilbert (Anna Hartley), (1821-1904), Henrietta Lindley, Henry
Arthur Jones. 'The Road to Ruin': James Fernandez (1835-1915),
Thomas Thorne (1841-1918), Louisa Peach, Fuller Mellish (1865-1936),
Kate Rorke (1866-1945), Fred Thorne, Charles Warner (Charles
Kickfold, 1846-1909). 'A Run of Luck': E.W. Gardiner (d1899),
Harry Nicholls, (1852-1926), Sophie Eyre (née Ryan, 1853-92),
J.G.Grahamme (d1907), Alma Murray (1854-6-1945), William Rignold
(d1904). Mary Moore (Lady Wyndham) (1861/2-1931), Austin Bereton
(1862-1922).
(Ax29721- Ax29800)
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Album 154
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts. Edited by Clement
Scott, Published by Carson and Comerford, Clement's House, Clement's
In Passage, Strand, W.C. 1887.
Vol 8 January to June 1887.
Woodburytype photographs taken specially for the Theatre by Barraud,
263, Oxford St.
Kate Rorke, Blanche Horlock,
David James, Durward Lely, Brandon Thomas, Amy Roselle, Phoebe
Carlo and Dorothy D'Alcourt in 'Alice in Wonderland', Louis Waller,
Sophie Eyre, Gilbert Farquhar, Arthur Cecil.
(Ax9285-Ax9296)
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Album 155
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts. Edited by Clement
Scott, Published by Carson and Comerford, Clement's House, Clement's
In Passage, Strand, W.C. 1887.
Vol 10 July to December 1887.
Woodburytype photographs taken specially for the Theatre by Barraud,
263, Oxford St.
Laurence Cautley, Violet Vanbrugh,
Geraldine Ulmar, Hayden. C. Coffin, Cora Urquhart Potter, Rutland
Barrington, Janet Achurch, Fuller Mellish, Rose Norreys, Percy
Lyndal, Agnes Hewitt.
(Ax9297-Ax9307)
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Album 156
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts. Edited by Clement
Scott, Published by Carson and Comerford, Clement's House, Clement's
In Passage, Strand, W.C. 1888.
New Series Vol 11 January 1888.
Woodburytype photographs taken specially for the Theatre by Barraud,
263, Oxford St.
Grace Hawthorne, Cecil Howard,
Annie Hughes and Maude Millet in 'Two Roses', Fanny Brough, Edwawrd
Smith Willard, John Clayton, Harriett Jay, Clohilde Inez Mary
Graves, Arthur Williams, Christine Willson, Claude D Marius,
(Ax9320-Ax9317)
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Album 157
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts. Edited by Clement
Scott, Published by Strand Publishing Company, 172, Strand ,
WC 1888.
New Series Vol 12 July to December 1888.
Woodburytype photographs taken specially for the Theatre by Barraud,
263, Oxford St.
Sir Charles Santley, Dame Marie
Tempest, Julie Neilson, Francis Henry Macklin, Ada Rehan, Frank
Kemble Cooper, Miss Wadman, Arthur Roberts, Edith Woodworth,
Richard Mansfield, Mrs John Wood, H. B Conway,
Acquisitions numbers Ax9322-Ax9333.
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Album 158
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts. Edited by Clement
Scott, Published by Strand Publishing Company, 172, Strand ,
WC 1889.
New Series Vol 13 January to June 1889.
Woodburytype photographs taken specially for the Theatre by Barraud,
263, Oxford St.
Henry Irving, Ellen Lancaster
Wallis, John Sims Reeves, Jessie Bond, Charles Collette, Gertrude
Kingston, Charles H Brookfield, Olga Nethersole, E.D Ward, Ellaline
Terriss, Mr H Savile Clarke, Lottie Venne, Jack Robertson.
(Ax9334-Ax9346)
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Album 159
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts. Edited by Clement
Scott, Published by Eglington & CO. 78 & 78A Great Queen
St, W.C. 1889
New Series vol 14 July to December 1889.
Woodburytype photographs taken specially for the Theatre by Barraud,
263, Oxford St.
Marion Terry and Annie Hughes,
George Giddens, Cicely Richards, Cyril Maude, Rose Leclerq, Roe
Bassett, Vane Featherston, John Maddison Morton, Minnie Terry,
Arthur Dacre, Eva Moore, Robert Buchanan.
(Ax9347-Ax9358)
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Album 160
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts. Edited by Bernard
E. J. Capes, Published by Eglington & Co. 78 & 78A Great
Queen St, W.C. 1890.
New Series Vol 15 January to June 1890.
Agnes Huntington, Nellie Farren
and Fred Leslie, Ella Banister, Edward Gordon Craig, Olga Brandon,
E.S. Willard, Annie Hughes and E.W. Garden, Sara Palma, Ben Davies,
Marion Lea, Sir John Hare, Sylvia Grey and Jerome K. Jerome.
(Ax9359-Ax9370)
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Album 161
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts. Edited by Bernard
E. J. Capes, Published by Eglington & Co. 78 & 78A Great
Queen St, W.C.
1890.
New Series Vol 16 July to December 1890.
Bessie Hatton, Sydney Grundy,
Eleanor Leyshon, Olga Brandon and E.S Willard, Decima More, Courtice
Pounds, Dame May Whitty, Joseph Tapley, Sir Charles Wyndham and
Lady (Mary Moore), Mary Collette, Rosina Filippi and Fred Terry.
(Ax9371-Ax9382)
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Album 162
The Theatre A Monthly
Review of the Drama, Music and the Fine Arts. Edited by Bernard
E. J. Capes and Charles Eglington. Published by Eglington &
Co. 78 & 78A Great Queen St, W.C. 1891.
New Series Vol 17 January to June 1891.
Olga Brandon and Leonard Boyne
in 'The English Rose', Marion Terry and George Alexander in 'Sunlight
and Shadow', Attalie Clair, Marguerite Macintyre, Effie Clements
and E.W. Garden in 'La Cigale', Julia Neilson, Katie Seymour,
Kate Rorke and J. Forbes-Robertson in 'Lady Bountiful', Jane
May, Madame Schmidt and M. Courtes in 'L'Enfant Prodigue', Charles
Warner, Harry Monkhouse, Harry Parker, and John Le Hay in 'Maid
Marian', H. Reeves-Smith.
(Ax28813-Ax28823)
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Album 176: Yesterday with Authors by James T.Fields
Book published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in Boston and
New York for the University Press, Cambridge, 1900
Contains photogravure reproduction of Julia Margaret Cameron's
portrait of James T.Fields and 8 other photogravures from photographs
including William Makepeace Thackeray, Dr John Brown of Edinburgh,
a group photograph of Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Thomas Fields
and Wiliam Davis Ticknor, Cornelius Conway Fenton, Oliver Wendell
Holmes and James Russell Lowell and others after paintings.
Purchased 1978
Acquisition numbers Ax29920 - Ax29927 |
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Album 177: Photographic Groups of Eminent Personages
Dark red album 13 x 11inches
containing six plates numbered A -F of albumen prints showing
large montage head and should portraits of eminent men of the
Victorian period including international subjects from Europe
and America accompanied by a series of diagramatic keys to their
identities within in the pyramidal structure of the montage.
Plate A shows 103 "Celebrities in the Church, Science,
Literature, and Art"
Including "no 1 Late Prof Freeman of Oxford, Historian,
no 6 (shown at centre top pinnacle point) Sir Frederic Leighton,
President of the Royal Academy,
no 17. Max O'Rell, popular French Author and Lecture ,no. 44
M. Louis Pasteur, distinguished French Professor, no 76 Stanley
J.Weyman, Novelist, no 95 Anthony Froude, historian, no 99 (central
figure in bottom) Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate and no 103 late
Hugh Miller, Geologist.
Plate B " Modern Celebrities: Political, Legal, etc"
113 identified subjects included (top row, centre ) no 6 Baron
Ferdinand De Rothschild, M.P., no 47 (central figure) His Grace
the Duke of Devonshire, and nos 108 and 109 (in garlanded frame
in centre of bottom row) Rt. Hon W.E.Gladstone, M.P. and 109
Most Noble the Marquis of Salisbury and 113 the late Marqis Teng.
Plate C "Musical, Operatic and Dramatic Celebrities"
87 identified subjects including no 6 (top row centre) Late Mr
Joseph Maas as Faust,
central figure no 45 ( in inset frame) Henry Irving, shown below
no 35 Madame Sarah Bernhardt and above nos 61 and 62 (in reed
archway) Miss Elsie CAREW and Miss Maud Cathcart, bottom left
corner no 86 Dunward Lely as Don Juan and no 87 bottom row far
right John Stainer, Musical Director.
Plate D "Musical Operatic and Dramatic Celebrities"
(all female)
78 identified subjects including no 26 (central figure in frame)
Madame Adelina Patti,
top row centre, no 4, Madame Albani. Others include no 40 Lady
Dunlo, now Countess Clancarty and previously Belle Bilton, no
50 Miss Constance Gilchrist, now Countess of Orkney, and No 25
Lillie Langtry.
Plate E "Musical Operatic and Dramatic Celebrities"
108 identified subjects including in centre frame No 51 Mary
Anderson, no 1 (top left corner)) David Lamond, Pianist, no 11
(top right corner) M.Gounod, Composer. No 96 (bottom left corner)
Miss Maud Millet and no 106 (bottom left corner) Monsieur Virgent
in Le Prophet
Plate F "Military and Naval Celebrities"
103 identified subjects including (top row centre) no 6 HRH Duke
of Cambridge,
(top left) no 1 Late Lord Raglan, (top right) no 11 General sir
W F Williams, the Hero of Kars, (bottom row far left) no 91 General
Sir F W Greenfell, (bottom row far right) no 103 Sir Alex Milne,
Bt, Admiral of the Fleet , and in central frame in centre of
bottom row, nos 96 and 97 Wellington and Napoleon.
Album presented by C. H. Collins
Baker in April 1915
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Album 178: The
Tichborne Claimant Trial Album
Album 179-180: Frederic G. Hodsoll Albums
See also Camera Portraits |
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Album 181: Lord
Tennyson and his Friends
A series of 25 portraits
and a frontispiece in photogravure from the negatives of Mrs
Julia Margaret Cameron and H.H.H. Cameron, Reminiscences by Anne
Thackeray Ritchie, with introduction by H.H. Hay Cameron.
Limited edition of 400 copies. No. 1. Signed by H.H. Cameron.
Published by T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, 1893.
Acquired before 1939.
Indexed on slips 1939, catalogued. |
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Album 182: Barrington-Vaughan
Album
Large format album (17
x 13 inch), 74 pages containing 146 portrait photographs (albumen
prints) relating to the family, friends and relations of the
children of the 6th Viscount and Viscountess Barrington. Topographic
photographs relating to family homes including views of Beckett,
Newton Don, Shrivenham Church and Ravensworth Castle. Other photographs
include views of Venice and Paris as well as reproductions of
Raphael and other High Renaissance artists.
Sitters include: 4th Earl of Bathurst, 2nd Baron Bloomfield,
Countess of Clarendon, Countess of Kenmare, Alice and Edith Liddell,
Maria Therese Earle, Countess of Hardwicke, Countess of Lytton,
Francis Russell Nixon, Alfred & Mrs Sartoris, Rev. Francis
St John Thackeray and Samuel Wilberforce.
N.B. Robert Howlett's 1857 portrait of I.K. Brunel transferred
to Primary Collection (P112).
Given by A.J.W. Vaughan, 1972
12 biographical index of sitters compiled April 1987. |
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Album
183 : Historical Portraits Photographed in the Crimea by Roger
Fenton
Large album bound in red buckrum
with gold lettering on cover with above title includes 29 salt
prints mounted on large-format off white pre-printed pages as
published by Thomas Agnew and sons between 1855 and 1856 "of
photographs taken in the Crimea during the Spring and Summer
of 1855." And dedicated to Queen Victoria.
Includes the following subjects
:
George William Frederick Charles,
2nd Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), Fitzroy James Henry Somerset,
1st Baron Raglan 1789-1855, Aimable Jean-Jacques Pelissier, Duc
de Malakoff (1794-1864), Sir James Simpson (1792-1868), Omar
Pasha (1806-1871), Sir John William Gordon (1814-1870), Lieutenant-Colonel
Sir John Campbell (1807-1855) with Captain Hume, Francis William
Henry Fane, 12th Earl of Westmoreland (1825-1891), Sir Charles
Ash Windham (1810-1870), Sir William John Codrington (1804-1884),
Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget (1818-1880), Sir Richard
England (1793-1883), Sir Colin Campbell, Baron Clyde (1792-1863),
Sir Richard James Dacres (1799-1886) with Captain Hamley and
Colonel Adye, Colonel Harding, General Labousiniere with General
Beuret,
Sir John Lysaght Pennefather (1800-1872), Sir Harry David Jones
(1791-1866)
James Bucknall Estcourt (1802-1855), Sir George De Lacy Evans
(1787-1870),
Major-General Lockyer, Sir George Brown (1790-1865), Pierre-Francis
Joseph Bosquet (1810-1861), Colonel Shewell, Sir James Yorke
Scarlett (1799-1871) with Colonel Low, Sir George Buller 1802-1884),
Sir Robert Garrett 1794-1869), Sir Henry John William Bentinck
(1796-1878), and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar (1823-1902)
Note. Inside front cover are
two press cuttings, the fist dated September 15 1855 describing
Fenton's project and the second shows page 557 from the Illustrated
London News of November 10 1855 containing article "Mr Fenton's
Crimean Photographs" with a crtical appreciation of their
exhibition and an illustration in steel engraving of Fenton's
Photographic Van.
Purchased from Stefan Lennert,
May 1983
Acquisition numbers Ax24900 - Ax24928
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Album 184: Mayalls
Celebrities of the London Stage
A series of photographic
portraits in character. 8 monthly parts, nos. 1-8, priced at
1s. 6d each. Published by Messrs. A. Marion & Son, Soho Square.
Bound in red leather binding with biographies and advertisement.
8 carte-de-visite sized prints mounted on card pages.
Sitters include: Charles James Matthews, Kate Bateman, Theodore
Wachtel, Fanny Stirling, Edward Compton, John Baldwin Buckstone,
Benjamin Webster.
Purchased 1986. Catalogued. |
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Album 185: Fifty Leaders of British Sport
Red buckron bound volume
embossed in gold with motif of foxes heads. Entitled 'A series
of portraits by Ernest C. Elliott' (of Elliott & Fry) with
biographical notes and a preface by F.G. Aflalo.
Published by John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904.
Contains 50 Collotypes by Ernest C. Elliott of sitters including
King Edward VII, King George V and Sir Pelham Warner.
Purchased 1984.
N.B. Many loose prints from this volume acquired at an earlier
date.
Catalogued. |
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Album 186: Representative Men of India
A collection of memoirs,
with portraits of Indian princes, nobles, statesmen, philanthropists,
officials and eminent citizens.
By Sorabji Jehangir, with an introduction by Sir George C.M,
Birdwood. Published by W.H. Allen, 1889.
Large red and gold cloth bound volume containing 44 woodburytypes
by various unidentified photographers together with biographies.
172 pages.
Sitters include: Lord Northbrooke, Marquess of Ripon, the Gaekwar
of Baroda and Dudabhai Naoroji etc.
Purchased 1975. |
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Album 187: Living Lives. Work and Workers
Red buckron binding.
Contains 5 carte de visite photographs mounted on letterpress
pages together with biographies and two essays on Ireland and
Biography by an unidentified writer.
Published by Provost & Co 40 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.
Portraits include: Gladstone, Bright, Carlyle, Captain Sir James
Anderson and A.M. Sullivan, M.P.
38 pages. Purchased 1987. |
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Album 188: Photographs
Red leather box in shape
of a small book, containing 15 cabinet portraits and 1 carte
de visite, entitled on spine ' PHOTOGRAPHS'
Subjects include: Sir George Scharf and his circle, including
Philip Norman, Leonard C.C. Lindsay, R.J.H. Somerset, George
Cullum, Mary Lygon, Lionel Cust, J. Luard Pattison and Queen
Victoria.
Photographs by Frederick Hollyer, The Cameron Studio, Hughes
& Mullins, Barraud, Notman, Byrne & Co., and Gunn &
Stuart.
Given by Mrs Patricia Coleby, January 1981. |
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Album 189: The Theatre - A Monthly Review of
The Drama, Music & the Fine Arts
Edited by Clement Scott
Vol. III - New Series, January - June 1881
Published by Charles Dickens & Evans, 26 Wellington Street
Contains 6 Woodburytype reproductions of photographs by the London
Stereoscopic Company, Samuel A. Walker, Lock & Whitfield,
and engraved portraits.
Subjects include: Florence St John, Myra Holme, Lizzie St Quinten,
Helen Barry, Miss Leighton and a group including Edward Terry,
Kate Vaughan, E.W. Royce and Kate Vaughan in 'The Merry Family',
a burlesque of 'The Forty Thieves.
Purchased, March 1987. Catalogued. |
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Album 190: The Theatre - A Monthly Review of
the Drama, Music and th | |