🔥🔥🔥Incredible 2 Volume Grand Tour Albums Albumen Photo Prints 1870s/80s for Sale

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🔥🔥🔥Incredible 2 Volume Grand Tour Albums Albumen Photo Prints 1870s/80s For Sale

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🔥🔥🔥Incredible 2 Volume Grand Tour Albums Albumen Photo Prints 1870s/80s:
$1300.00

Incredible 2 Volume Grand Tour Albums Albumen Photo Prints 1870s/80s. Each large gilt edged tome measures about 14” x 17” x 2” and is very heavy with heavy cardboard-like pages. Covers appear to be worn leather. Each tome is chock full of original sepia tone albumen prints taken during Grand Tours of Europe, Middle East and North Africa. One tome contains about 146 photos of various sizes, some quite large. (Three images are loose). The other album has 70 images of various sizes. The tour was conducted from the yachts Dolly Varden and Thais. The dates that are handwritten on some of the pages are from 1876 to 1882. Genre scenes, cityscapes, country scenes, animals, portraits, churches, artistic poetic scenes, architecture and much more. Some of the most interesting are high jinks and group scenes aboard the yacht with the captain and passengers. Areas covered are Italy, Sicily, Belgium, Germany, Egypt etc. Real treasures and a wonderful chronicle of 19th century life and lifestyle. In very good condition commensurate with age and use. Please request more photos if specific areas are of certain interest to you. Please ask questions before purchasing and thank you for looking!

From the London Stereoscopic Company. Some of the main photographers of the album were GEORGE SWAN, ROBERT HOWLETT, WILLIAM ENGLAND, THOMAS RICHARD WILLIAMS, EDWARD POCOCK. Info on the company:

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company

The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company began in 1854 known as the London Stereoscopic Company, and from May 1859 as the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company.

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company

Former Oxford Street, London

54 Cheapside, London

110 Regent Street, London

Key people

George Swan Nottage (founder), Thomas Richard Williams, William Stereo cards

It closed in 1922.

Photographers

Its principal photographer was William England and also featured Thomas Richard Williams. Edward Pocock 1843-1905. Edward Pocock 'an artist about to travel for the same Company to take photographs and (make) sketches of places of interest for publication in England. Date lacking but witnessed by Sir Thomas White, Lord Mayor of London.