Call Number:

PH-02862

Collection Name:

Partial photograph album of British portraits

Creator:

No. of Items:

13 prints

Span Dates:

1854-1859

Description:

Thirteen pages from a photograph album that dates from 1854 to 1859. The Ransom Center received only these pages, it did not receive the rest of the album. Each page, has a mounted photograph of either an individual man or woman or a small group. Most of the photographs are albumen prints but also included are two salted paper prints. Several of the pages were trimmed down from their original size. The pages are pale blue with gilding on three edges. Item-level information follows.

964:0218:0001 -- Cooper, G. (George) (British, active 1870s-1880s). Cornelius Bevis Durham, 1859. Albumen print, 15.6 x 11.1 cm (arched top) (print); 37.6 x 29.2 cm (page);
964:0218:0002 -- Newcombe, S. Prout (Samuel Prout) (British, 1824-1912). Eleanor Cooper, 1856. Albumen print, 11.6 x 9.1 cm (arched top) (print); 37.6 x 29.1 cm (page);
964:0218:0003 -- Cooper, G. (George) (British, active 1870s-1880s). Portrait of a woman, 1856. Albumen print, 10.2 x 7 cm (print); 37.6 x 29.3 cm (page);
964:0218:0004 -- Cooper, G. (George) (British, active 1870s-1880s). Portrait of a woman and children, 1855-1857. Albumen print, 9 x 7.7 cm (rounded corners) (print); 37.6 x 29.4 cm (page);
964:0218:0005 -- Unidentified photographer. Henry J. Turrell, 1859. Albumen print, 14.7 x 11.1 cm (arched top) (print); 37.5 x 29.5 cm (page);
964:0218:0006 -- Hughes. Henry Ward, 1856-1957. Salted paper print, 14.6 x 10.5 cm (arched top) (print); 37.5 x 29.4 cm (page);
964:0218:0007 -- Henneman, Nicolaas (Dutch, 1813-1898). Thomas Griffith, 1856-1957. Albumen print, 11.1 x 8.5 cm (arched top) (print); 37.5 x 29.1 cm (page);
964:0218:0008 -- Unidentified photographer. J. T. Maull, circa 1857. Albumen print, 20 x 15.8 cm (arched top) (print); 37.5 x 28.2 cm (page);
964:0218:0009 -- Horne & Thornthwaite (British, active 1850s-1860s). Portrait of a woman, 1855-1856. Albumen print, 13.5 x 10.4 cm (arched top) (print); 37.6 x 29.4 cm (page);
964:0218:0010 -- Haydon, Samuel James Bouverie (British, 1815-1891). Group portrait, 1857. Albumen print, 13.3 x 10.5 cm (arched top) (print); 34.6 x 28.2 cm (page);
964:0218:0011 -- Reynolds. Portrait of a woman, 1858. Salted paper print, 8.7 x 6.4 cm (arched top) (print); 37.6 x 29.4 cm (page);
964:0218:0012 -- Haydon, Samuel James Bouverie (British, 1815-1891). Man sketching, 1859. Albumen print, 16.7 x 11.3 cm (print); 34.8 x 27.1 cm (page);
964:0218:0013 -- Unidentified photographer. Portrait of a man, 1859. Albumen print, 13.4 x 9.6 cm (arched top) (print); 37.6 x 28.3 cm (page).

Accession No(s):

964:0218:0001-0013; Album pages originally had accession numbers 964:0496:0001-0010 written on them, but the Photography Accession database showed that year:lot was used for prints by Alice Hughes. Since the album pages were not found in Photography Accession database under a different year:lot, it was assigned the previously unused Gernsheim year:lot 964:0218. MAH 2/13/2019; Purchase