BRITISH HISTORY INTEREST, 1860s-1800s

BRITISH HISTORY INTEREST, 1860s-1800s

A collection of albumen prints (75), image sizes between 9 x 6cm (smallest) and 16 x 21.7cm (largest), compiled in a scrapbook with hand drawings and decorations, alongside artistic reproductions of genre and allegoric scenes. Notably the album includes two portraits of the Princess of Wales with her son and the Prince of Wales Albert Edward, born in 1841 to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, then King Edward VII (1901-1910). Subjects also include a portrait of actress Fanny Cooper (1814 - 1872), a view of Stratford-upon-Avon together with an image of the Shakespeare's memorial.