Camille Silvy Collection, Album 7 (Daybook Volume 7), 1862-66
1296 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 7: sitter numbers 8244-9627 (22 May 1862 - 23 July 1866), 343 pages containing 1343 photographs. Notable sitters include: Sir Robert Garrett; Sir Frederick Abbott; Adelina Patti; Ferdinand Freiligrath; Charles Fechter; Francis Fox Tuckett; reproduction of a daguerreotype of Honoré de Balzac by Louis Auguste Bisson.
'Reproduction by order of Mr. Balzac' (Honoré de Balzac)
by Camille Silvy, after a daguerreotype by Louis Auguste Bisson
albumen print, circa 1862 (1842)
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'Reproduction from a photographic portrait of Mr. C. Silvy'
by Camille Silvy, after Unknown photographer
albumen print, circa 1862 (circa 1853)
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by Camille Silvy
albumen print, early-mid 1860s
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by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 1862-1866 (1860)
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Adelina Patti in costume for six different roles
by Camille Silvy
albumen photomontage, 1866 (circa 1861)
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Adelina Patti in costume for six different roles
by Camille Silvy
albumen photomontage, 1866 (circa 1861)
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View of Camille Silvy's photographic studio, 38 Porchester Terrace
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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View of Camille Silvy's photographic studio, 38 Porchester Terrace
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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View of Camille Silvy's photographic studio, 38 Porchester Terrace
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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View of Camille Silvy's photographic studio, 38 Porchester Terrace
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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View of Camille Silvy's photographic studio, 38 Porchester Terrace
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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View of Camille Silvy's photographic studio, 38 Porchester Terrace
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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(Louis Dominique) Auguste Renoult
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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'Captain Paley's phaeton' (including Raymond South Paley)
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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'Captain Paley's phaeton' (including Raymond South Paley)
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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'Portrait post-mortem of the child of Mrs Pontifex'
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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'Portrait post-mortem of the child of Mrs Pontifex'
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, circa 1862
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