A collection of twelve albums representing the output of Camille Silvy’s (1834-1910) photographic portrait studio based at 38 Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, London. Compiled by the studio, each album is arranged almost entirely chronologically and in sitter number order. Each page is divided into a grid of four sections with each section featuring one carte-de-visite sized albumen print from the sittings, pasted beneath the sitter number and a handwritten identification of the photograph’s subject. Album 5: sitter numbers 5501-6868 (14 August 1861 - 27 January 1862), 343 pages containing 1329 photographs. Notable sitters include: 1st Baron Rothschild; Alfred de Rothschild; Sir Leslie Stephen; Thomas William Jex-Blake; Thomas Garnier; Horatio Joseph Lucas; Antonio Gallenga; Henry Bence Jones; John Loughborough Pearson.