Photographic scrapbook by W.R. Thompson, containing travel views and portraits
MS. 23051 photogr. 7
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Photographic scrapbook by W.R. Thompson, containing travel views and portraits
Shelfmark
MS. 23051 photogr. 7
Summary
Scrapbook containing two hundred and forty-four albumen prints and one tintype by various photographers, one signed by John Saché. Images include portraits of the British royal family, Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightingale, and officers of the 86th Regiment. Gibraltar views include the Brigade Ground, the Casemates Barracks, and Gardiner's Battery. Other images include bull fighters, peasants, Spanish soldiers, Moorish beggars, Moroccan people, views of camp life in Port Elizabeth and the surrounding countryside in South Africa, and Mauritius, Egypt, Malta, and Ireland. Eight views of India (Calcutta, Cawnpore, Bombay, Agra, Delhi, Lucknow) are by Saché.
Associated place
Spain
Date
1864-1868
Language
English
Physical facet
Albumen paper prints; tintype
Physical extent
1 item
Custodial history
Purchased at Christie's UK, 21/05/2003, lot 107.
Subject
India
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Collection contents
The Michael and Jane Wilson Collection of Nineteenth Century Photographs
Photographically-illustrated books and albums
Photographic scrapbook by W.R. Thompson, containing travel views and portraits
