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Call Number:

PH-00958

Collection Name:

[Brown morocco cartes de visite album] (a.k.a. Album 4, and carte album 4)

Creator:

, 1810 or 1813 - 1901, active 1840/1849 - 1890/1899

, 1816 - 1881 or 1888, active 1850 - 1897

, 1822 - 1881, active 1860 - 1869

, 1827 - 1879

, 1832 - 1909, active 1849 - 1908

, 1834 - 1910, active 1857 - 1869

, active 1850/1859 - 1870/1879

, active 1850/1859 - 1880/1889

, active 1860 - 1869

, active 1860/1869 - 1860/1899

, active 1860/1869 - 1870/1879

, active 1860/1869 - 1880/1889

Alexander, D., active 1870 - 1879

Bernheim Jeune, J. (Josse), active 1880 - 1889

Bruckmann, Friedrich, 1814 - 1898, active 1860/1869 - 1880/1889

Clarke, Archer, active 1870/1879 - 1880/1889

Clifford, Charles, 1819 - 1863, active 1851 - 1863

Cundall, Downes & Co., active 1859 - 1865

Disdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène, 1819 - 1889

King, Horatio Nelson, 1828 or 1830 - 1905, active 1850/1859 - 1910/1919

London Stereoscopic Company, 1854 - 1922, active 1854 - 1922

Mason, W. H. (William Henry), active 1860 - 1869

Maull & Polyblank (British), active 1854 - 1865

Melhuish, Arthur James, 1829 - 1895, active 1850/1859 - 1880/1889

Neurdein, E., 1832 - 1918, active 1870/1879 - 1900/1909

Numa fils

Spanton, William, active 1880 - 1889

No. of Items:

50 items

Span Dates:

1854-1875

Description:

Cartes-de-visite album bound in brown leather, with 25 gilt-edged pages, containing 50 cartes-de-visite of royalty, noblemen, authors, artists, politicians, church leaders, and prominent men and women of the mid to late 1800s. Notable figures include Victor Hugo, Richard Wagner, Charles Dickens, W. E. Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, the King of Siam, Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, Kaiser Franz Joseph, Leopold II King of Belgium, Pope Pio Nono, and Capt. Matthew Webb (the first man to swim the English Channel). The photographers of all but 10 cartes are known and include: London Stereoscopic Company (3); Friedrich Bruckmann (2), Charlet & Jacotin (2); Disderi (2); F. C. Earl (2); J. E. Mayall (2); Pierre Petit (2); Camille Silvy (2, one of which was published by Mason & Co.); John Watkins (2), John & Charles Watkins (2, one of which was published by Mason & Co.); and one photograph each by D. Alexander (1); Ludwig Angerer (1); Bernheim jeune (1); Giacomo Brogi (1); Caldesi, Blanford & Co. (1); Archer Clarke (1); Charles Clifford (1 published by Cundall, Downes & Co.); Duroni & Murer (1); Vernon Heath (1 attributed, published by W. H. Mason) (1); H. N. King (1); Mason & Co. (1); Maull & Polyblank (1); Arthur James Melhuish (1); I. Neurdein (1); Numa fils (1); Rabending & Monckhoven (1); Charles Reutlinger (1); and W. Spanton (1).

Accession No(s):

964:0433:0001-0050; Gernsheim Collection

Location(s):

f TR 655.11 C367 HRC-P (964:0433:0001-0050)
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Item(s):
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Fr. Schiller.
Date [1863 or later]
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0001
Artist/Maker Bruckmann, Friedrich, 1814 - 1898, active 1860/1869 - 1880/1889
Title Schiller.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0002
Artist/Maker Bruckmann, Friedrich, 1814 - 1898, active 1860/1869 - 1880/1889
Title Goethe.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0003
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Goethe.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0004
Artist/Maker , 1822 - 1881, active 1860 - 1869
Title Raphael.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0005
Artist/Maker , 1832 - 1909, active 1849 - 1908
Title E. Renan.
Date [1867 or later]
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0006
Artist/Maker , 1832 - 1909, active 1849 - 1908
Title Victor Hugo.
Date [1867 or later]
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0007
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Richard Wagner.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0008
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Charles] Dickens.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0009
Artist/Maker , 1834 - 1910, active 1857 - 1869
Title [John Leech]
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0010
Artist/Maker King, Horatio Nelson, 1828 or 1830 - 1905, active 1850/1859 - 1910/1919
Title Sir Charles Hallé.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0011
Artist/Maker London Stereoscopic Company, 1854 - 1922, active 1854 - 1922
Title Sir J[ohn] Tenniel in Wolf in Sheeps Clothing.
Date [1862 or later]
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0012
Artist/Maker London Stereoscopic Company, 1854 - 1922, active 1854 - 1922
Title “[Dan Maurier?]” in Wolf in Sheeps Clothing.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0013
Artist/Maker , active 1860/1869 - 1860/1899
Title Augustus Egg, R.A.
Date 1854
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0014
Artist/Maker Maull & Polyblank (British), active 1854 - 1865
Title [Unidentified standing man].
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0015
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Lord Brougham]
Date circa 1858
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0016
Artist/Maker Disdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène, 1819 - 1889
Title Lord Sidney Herbert.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0017
Artist/Maker Clarke, Archer, active 1870/1879 - 1880/1889
Title The Rt. Hon. Lord Lyttelton.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0018
Artist/Maker Melhuish, Arthur James, 1829 - 1895, active 1850/1859 - 1880/1889
Title Hon. R. Lowe M.P.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0019
Artist/Maker Alexander, D., active 1870 - 1879
Title [C. Dalrymple M.P.]
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0020
Artist/Maker Spanton, William, active 1880 - 1889
Title Sir John Walsham Bart.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0021
Artist/Maker , 1810 or 1813 - 1901, active 1840/1849 - 1890/1899
Title M. E. Gladstone.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0022
Artist/Maker , 1810 or 1813 - 1901, active 1840/1849 - 1890/1899
Title Disraeli.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0023
Artist/Maker , active 1850/1859 - 1870/1879
Title Marquis of Salisbury M.P.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0024
Artist/Maker , 1816 - 1881 or 1888, active 1850 - 1897
Title Grant Duff M.P.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0025
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Thiers.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0026
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Count Cavour.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0027
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Jefferson Davis.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0028
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title H.M. the King of Siam.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0029
Artist/Maker Clifford, Charles, 1819 - 1863, active 1851 - 1863
Title The Queen Nov. 14, 1861.
Date 1861 Nov. 14
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0030
Artist/Maker , active 1850/1859 - 1880/1889
Title The late Prince Consort.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0031
Artist/Maker Disdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène, 1819 - 1889
Title Empress Eugenie.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0032
Artist/Maker London Stereoscopic Company, 1854 - 1922, active 1854 - 1922
Title Napoleon III.
Date [1862 or later]
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0033
Artist/Maker , active 1860 - 1869
Title Empress Elisabeth.
Date 1867
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0034
Artist/Maker , 1827 - 1879
Title Kaiser Franz Joseph.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0035
Artist/Maker , active 1860/1869 - 1870/1879
Title Kaiser Franz Joseph.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0036
Artist/Maker , active 1860/1869 - 1870/1879
Title Crown prince Frederick of Prussia.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0037
Artist/Maker Bernheim Jeune, J. (Josse), active 1880 - 1889
Title King Leopold II of Belgium.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0038
Artist/Maker , 1810 - 1896, active 1854 - 1860/1863
Title [Lord Elcho]
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0039
Artist/Maker Neurdein, E., 1832 - 1918, active 1870/1879 - 1900/1909
Title Pope Pio Nono.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0040
Artist/Maker , active 1850/1859 - 1870/1879
Title Dean Stanley of Westminster Abbey.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0042
Artist/Maker , 1834 - 1910, active 1857 - 1869
Title [Dr. Millman, Dean of St. Paul's.]
Date circa 1864
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions mat window: 8.9 x 5.4 cm; 3 1/2 x 2 1/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0043
Artist/Maker , active 1860/1869 - 1870/1879
Title [Sir Wm. Page Wood (Lord Chancellor)]
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0044
Artist/Maker , active 1860/1869 - 1870/1879
Title Sir Randell Palmer.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0045
Artist/Maker Numa fils
Title Cialdini.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0046
Artist/Maker , active 1860 - 1869
Title Menotti Garibaldi.
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0047
Artist/Maker , active 1860/1869 - 1870/1879
Title Countess of Dudley [seated].
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0048
Artist/Maker , active 1860/1869 - 1870/1879
Title Countess of Dudley [standing].
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0049
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title [Cpt. [Matthew] Webb (first Channel swimmer)]
Date circa 1860
Medium Albumen print mounted on card (carte-de-visite format)
Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 cm; 3 3/10 x 2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0433:0050

See Also:

J. E. (John Jabez Edwin) Mayall Photography Collection

Lake Price Album

London Stereoscopic Company Photography Collection