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Herbert Fry's National Gallery of Photographic Portraits: photographs by Herbert Watkins and others, 1856-58


28 Portraits in set

Large white leather and red-marbled cloth bound volume. Contains 28 albumen print photographs by Herbert Watkins and Maull & Polyblank, plus printed biographies with hand written biographical notes, autographed letters from sitters including refusals for sittings, etc. Sitters include: Palmerston, Lord Brougham, Samuel Wilberforce, Douglas Jerrold, Walter Savage Landor, Millais, Macaulay and Robert Stephenson.

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Sir Richard Owen, by Maull & Polyblank - NPG Ax7925

Sir Richard Owen

by Maull & Polyblank
albumen print, arched top, published May 1856
NPG Ax7925

Robert Stephenson, by Maull & Polyblank - NPG Ax7928

Robert Stephenson

by Maull & Polyblank
albumen print, published July 1856
NPG Ax7928

John Arthur Roebuck, by Maull & Polyblank - NPG Ax7927

John Arthur Roebuck

by Maull & Polyblank
albumen print, arched top, published August 1856
NPG Ax7927