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Camille Silvy Collection, Album 5 (Daybook Volume 5), 1861-62


1332 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 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.

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John Philip Gell, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax55915

John Philip Gell

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 2 October 1861
NPG Ax55915

J.W. Fredricks, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax55866

J.W. Fredricks

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 28 September 1861
NPG Ax55866

Camille Silvy, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax55532

Camille Silvy

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 20 August 1861
NPG Ax55532

Camille Silvy, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax55521

Camille Silvy

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 20 August 1861
NPG Ax55521

Camille Silvy, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax55520

Camille Silvy

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 20 August 1861
NPG Ax55520

Charles Owen O'Conor, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax55466

Charles Owen O'Conor

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 14 August 1861
NPG Ax55466

Stephen Creyke, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax55468

Stephen Creyke

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 14 August 1861
NPG Ax55468

Alexander Joseph, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax55506

Alexander Joseph

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 17 August 1861
NPG Ax55506

James Pearse Peachey, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax55544

James Pearse Peachey

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 29 August 1861
NPG Ax55544

Thomas Martin, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax56134

Thomas Martin

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 25 October 1861
NPG Ax56134

Matthew Arnold, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax56335

Matthew Arnold

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 9 November 1861
NPG Ax56335

Edith C.H. Saunders, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax56460

Edith C.H. Saunders

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 23 November 1861
NPG Ax56460

Guy Hardwin Gallenga, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax55923

Guy Hardwin Gallenga

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 2 October 1861
NPG Ax55923

Miss Anderson, by Camille Silvy - NPG Ax55563

Miss Anderson

by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 30 August 1861
NPG Ax55563