Camille Silvy Collection, Album 9 (Daybook Volume 9), 1862
1318 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 9: sitter numbers 11000-12370 (30 July - 16 December 1862), 343 pages containing 1347 photographs. Notable sitters include: Ferdinand d'Orléans, Duke of Alençon; Jane, Marchioness of Ely; Lady Marian Alford; Sir Philip Bainbrigge; Sir Charles Darling; Sir Richard Amphlett; Henry Baker Tristram; Joshua Field.
