May 15, 2003 - Sale 1971

Sale 1971 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 2,070
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CARTES-DE-VISITE) watkins, john & charles
Period British album containing 116 photographs, each with a handwritten caption, comprising more than 48 portraits of artists associated with the Royal Academy, including john tenniel, john milais, george f. watts, william etty, and edward ward, as well as studies of w. holman hunt, george cruikshank, david cox, john gilbert, edward ward, and numerous other notable figures. Albumen prints, each on a period mount with the Watkins imprint on mount recto or verso. 4to, stamped morocco, worn; brass clasp; all edges gilt. 1860s