Camille Silvy Collection, Album 1 (Daybook Volume 1), 1860
701 Portraits in set
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 1: sitter numbers 1-1300 (undated, probably 1860), 281 pages containing 705 photographs. Notable sitters include: Princess Mary of Cambridge (later Duchess of Teck); 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava; Marchesi d'Azeglio; Louis d'Orléans, Duc de Nemours; 3rd Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston; Edward Cheney; Adelaide Kemble; Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope; Horatio Powys; Wilhelm Kuhe; Rosa Csillag.
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, August 1859
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Frances Elizabeth Jocelyn (née Cowper), Viscountess Jocelyn
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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Victor Emmanuel Taparelli, Marchesi d'Azeglio
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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James Hay Erskine Wemyss with an unknown man
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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Millicent Ann Mary Wemyss (née Kennedy-Erskine)
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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Frances Charlotte Haig (née Harris); George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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Lady Mary Catherine Craven (née Yorke)
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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Hon. Robert Walter Craven; Hon. Osbert William Craven
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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Marie of Baden, Princess of Leiningen
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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Marie of Baden, Princess of Leiningen
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1860
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