PORTRAITURE INTEREST, ROYAL, POLITICAL, & CELEBRITY, c.1860-1900

A leather-bound album containing a collection of cabinet cards (17) and cartes-de-visite (33) of royal, celebrity, and military subjects. Albumen prints (50), image sizes between 9 x 5.7cm and 14 x 10cm. Subjects include Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein; Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville; Liberal Statesman John Bright MP; Mary Cooper; HRH Princess Alexandra by Mayall; Princess Louise by Hill & Saunders; Queen Victoria (2) by Cundall, Downes & Co and Mayall; Prime Minister William Gladstone by the London Stereoscopic Co.; Benjamin Disraeli by W & D Downey; James Anthony Froude by Elliott & Fry (2, both in cabinet card and carte format); Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Elliott & Fry; Eugenie Empress of France; Florence Dysart as Lydia Hawthorne; Harriet Coveney as Mrs Privett; a mourning collage of the Royal Family on the death of Queen Victoria; Florence Nightingale; three portraits of unidentified nurses by J Mandi studio, Bucharest; the Earl of Derby; Lord Granville; Lord Derby; the Speaker of the House of Commons JH Brand; the Bishop of Ripon; Reverend Martineau; President of France Adolphe Thiers; Sir Edwin Landseer; the Prince of Wales; Lord Lytton; singer Christina Neilson; actress Julia Neilson; Egyptologist Waynman Dixon; Christopher Aldridge wearing his Boer War medal; and others, including an ethnographic study of an Zimbabwean woman with a baby in a bassinet.