The Jocelyn album: Photographs compiled by Cecilia Mary Jocelyn, 1850s-1860s
40 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.
