PORTRAITURE INTEREST, ROYAL & MILITARY, c.1860-1880

A leather-bound album containing a collection of carte-de-visite portraits of royal, celebrity, and military subjects. Albumen prints (34), image sizes approx. 90 x 57mm. Subjects include Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by Mayall (2), Alexandra, Princess of Wales by W & D Downey, Duchess of Westminster by Window & Grove, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany by Bassano, Helen, Duchess of Albany by Bassano, Victoria, Princess Royal of Prussia by Mayall, Second Duke of Cambridge by Maull & Paolyblank, Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck by Silvy, Prince Arthur and Princess Beatrice by Hills and Saunders, Napoleon III by Levitsky, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle by Elliott & Fry, John Bright by W & D Downey, William Gladston & Grandson, J Reeves by HN King, Adelaide Ristori by Disderi, Edwin Landseer, a group portrait of the Royal Dragoons bhy W Perry, a member of a Black Watch soldier, Cairo, in kilt, by Sebah, and others, in card thick card mounts, back to back, bound in black Morocco album with brass clasps.