Disdéri &Co., Claudet, Mayall, Nadar, and others
Portraiture Interest, c. 1850s-1860s

A collection of albumen print cartes-de-visite (62), image size approx. 9.4 x5.7cm, comprising portraits by various photographic studios, such as Disdéri &Co, Paris; A. Claudet, London; T.R. Williams, London; Woodbury & Page, Java; William F. Kilburn, London; Henry P. Robinson, Leamington; John J.E. Mayall, London; Nadar, Paris, among others. Subjects include a hand-tinted portrait of a woman in a long black dress, holding a fan in her hand, by C. Silvy, Bayswater; two portraits of Oscar William Hambrough and his wife in a photographic studio set, imitating a natural background, by Henry P. Robinson, Leamington; the actor Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary in 'Our American Cousin', by Alexander Bassano, London; Lady Alice Hill, Countess of Bective, by Disdéri &Co.; a family portrait of a mother with her three daughters in white dresses, by Nadar; and a side profile three-quarter lenght portrait of a woman reading a book, by Gustave Le Gray &Co, Paris; among others.

Housed in a full brown Morocco leather album with gilt edges and brass clasps.