Victorian Era, Eminent Figures, c.1860s

EXCEPTIONAL ALBUM OF 153 CARTE DE VISITE OF EMINENT VICTORIANS, c.1860s, including David Brewster (1781-1868, Physicist) by James Valentine (1815-1879), Sir John Herschel (1792-1871, Astronomer) by Samuel A. Walker, 2 of Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875, Scientist) by James Valentine and Hills & Saunders, Ralph Waldo Emerson by Elliott and Fry, 2 of Ferdinand Maximillian I (1832-1867, Emperor of Mexico) by Robert Jefferson Bingham (c.1824-1870) and by Ghemar Freres (active 1860s), Warren de la Rue (1815-1889, Astronomer) by Ernest Edwards (1837-1903), Michael Faraday (1791-1867, Scientist) by Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867), Johann Strauss II (1825-1899, Composer), Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868, Italian Composer), Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830-1914, Baritone by Carjat, Franz Liszt (1811-1886, Composer) by Reutlinger, 2 of Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864, Composer) by Numa Blanc and Pierre Petit, Emperor Maximillian I and Empress Carlota (1840-1927) by Neurdein, August Wilhelmj (1845-1908, Violinist) by Frit Luckhardt, Charles Gounod (181801893, Composer) by Desmaisons, Joseph Joachim (1831-1907, Violinist) by Bassano, Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894, Pianist and Composer) by Elliott & Fry (active 1863-1930), 2 of George Macdonald (1824-1905, Author and Poet) by Elliott & Fry and W. Jeffrey, Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Historian) by Elliott & Fry, Tom Hood (1835-1874, Humorist) by Elliott & Fry, 4 of Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892, Poet) by John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901) & Elliott & Fry, Harriett Martineau (1802-1876, Socialist) by M. Bowness, 2 of Charles Dickens (1812-1870, Writer) by C. Paragon, 2 of Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869, Author) by Alexandre Martin and Franck, 2 of Victor Hugo (1802-1885, Writer) by Pierre Petit and Carjat, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864, Novelist) by C. Ferranti, William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863, Writer) by Herbert Watkins), 3 of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882, Writer) by The London Stereoscopic Company and Houghton, Mark Lemon (1809-1870, Editor of Punch) by Elliott & Fry, John Ruskin (1819-1900, Writer) by Elliott & Fry, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859, Historian) by Maull & Polyblank, Alexander Dumas fils (1824-1895, Writer), Alphonse de Lamartine by Pierre Petit, 3 of Alexander Dumas Pere (1802-1870 Writer), 1 by Liebert & Co., showing him with Miss Adah Menken (1835-1868, American Actress), 2 others by J. Ruwner and Reutlingen, Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879, Physician) by Pierre Petit, Alfred Velpeau (1795-1867, Anatomist) by Pierre Petit, Revd Charles Kinsley (1819-1875, Writer) by J. Mayall, Dr Henri-Louis Roger (1809-1891, Pediatrician) by Pierre Petit, Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892, Biologist and Anatomist) by Maull, Dr William Whewell (1794-1867, Polymath) by Maull, Hermann David Weber (1823-1918, Physician) by Lenthall, Dr Lyon Playfair (1818-1874, Scientist) by T. Rodgers, Leon Gambetta (1838-1882, French Lawyer and Politician) by Etienne Carjat, Cornelius Conway Felton (1807-1883, American Educator) by Warren, Professor Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles (1807-1883, Scholar) by Warren, Jean Louise Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873, biologist and Geologist) by Warren, Professor James Russell Lowell (1819-1891, Romantic Poet) by Warren, Professor Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880, American Mathematician), Dr William Wallace (1791-1837, Doctor), 2 of James Young Simpson (1811-1870, Obstetrician) by Ross & Thompson and E. W. Dallas, 2 of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910, Nurse and Hospital Reformer), Jenny Lind (1820-1887, The Swedish Nightingale, Singer) by W. E. Kilburn, 2 of William Holman Hunt (1827-1910, Pre-Raphaelite Painter) by Elliott and Fry and the London Stereoscopic Co., Thomas Couture (1815-1879, History Painter), by Pierre Petit, Gustave Dore (1832-1883, Artist and Etcher) by Elliott & Fry, Horatio McCulloch (1805-1867, Scottish Landscape Painter) by Tunny, Thomas Faed (1826-1900, Painter) by Elliott & Fry, Michael Faraday by Antoine Claudet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882, Pre Raphaelite Painter) by Downey, Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859, Painter and Writer) by Mayall, John Leech (1817-1864, Caricaturist) by Caldesi Blanford, Edward Armitage (1817-1896, RA) and Walter William Ouless (1848-1924, Portrait Painter) pictured together by J. Shivas of Peterhead, 2 of Miss Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler (1846-1933, Battle Painter), by the London Stereoscopic Society and R.W. Thrupp, Franz Xavier Winterhalter (1805-1873, Painter and Lithographer) by Pierre Petit, James Clark Hook (1819-1907, Painter and Etcher) by Elliott & Fry, Conder by Mayer & Pierson, “Felix of Antwerp, celebrated painer born without arms”, Thomas Creswick (1811-1869, Painter) by Caldesi & Blanford, John Henry Foley (1818-1874, Sculptor) by Elliott & Fry, Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896, PRA, Illustrator) by Elliott & Fry, Edwin Landseer (1802-1873 , Painter of Animals) by John & Charles Watkins, David Roberts (1796-1864, Painter known for the Holy Land) by Calderi, Edward Mathew Ward (1816-1879, Painter) with autograph note on the verso, 2 of John Phillip (1817-1867, Portrait Painter) by Elliott & Fry one with autograph note on the verso, Daniel Maclise (1806-1870, History Painter) by Elliott & Fry, Lewis Foreman Day (1845-1910, Decorative Artist in the Arts and Crafts Movement) by Valentine Blanchard, signed and dated under the photo, July 1872, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, 16^th President of the United States) by Elliott & Fry, James Butler by C. D. Fredericks, American Civil War General by E. Anthony, 1862, Jefferson Davis (1808-1889, President of the Confederate States) by Charles D. Fredricks & Co., Sir James Outram, 1^st Bart (1803-1863, Lieutenant General, the Bayard of India) by Kilburn, Admiral Cochrane (Lord Dundonald, 1775-1860, Admiral of the Red) by Maull & Polyblank, Field Marshal John Colburne (1^st Baron, 1778-1863) by J. Hawke, Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894, Traveller and Archaeologist) by Downey, 2 of Christina Nilsson (1843-1921, Swedish Soprano) by Reutlinger, 2 of Kate Josephine Bateman (1842-1917, Actress) by C. D. Fredricks, Johnnie Parland fishing by J. Green, Caversham, Matthew Webb (1848-1883, Fist Person to swim the English Channel) by Horatio King, Adelina Patti (1843-1919, Opera Singer) by Mayer & Pierson, Edward Askew Sothern (1826-1881, Actor) by H. Herring, Charles James Mathews (1803-1878, Actor) by Heath and Beau, Charles Kean (1811-1868, Actor) by Southwell, 2 of William Macready (1793-1873, Actor) by P. E. Chappuis and A. Claudet, 2 of Italo Gardoni (1821-1882, Operatic Tenor) by Caldesi Blanford and Mayer & Pierson, 2 of Marietta Alboni (1823-1894, Italian Contralto) by Caldesi Blanford and Mayer & Pierson, Charles and Hemry Webb as the Two Dromios for the RSC, by Southwell, Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923, French Actress) by Melandri, 2 of Jules Leotard (1838-1870, French Acrobat and Aerialist) 1 by Disderi, the other hand tinted. Early carte of a boy by Ayling, 4 of Charles Blondin (1824-1897, French Tightrope walker and Acrobat) 3 by Negretti & Zambra and finally Signor Ethardo, (1825-1911,the Spiral Ascensionist )by W. S. Laroche. Bound together in a contemporary brassbound morocco album.