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(VICTORIANA) A pair of Victorian-era photo albums with numerous elaborate hand-drawn decorative elements. The first British and featuring classic Victorian ink-drawn motifs such as shells, birds, equestrian and hunting imagery, and more, all intricately composed and delicately rendered on the page. The photographs are largely family portraiture, but the album also features an oval photograph of the English actress Lillie Langtry. With 75 pages and 149 albumen print portraits, the images measuring 5 5/8x4 inches (14.3x10.2 cm.), and smaller, featured within the elaborate ink drawings. Folio, decorative gilt leather, lightly worn. 1860s-80s The second album apparently by a woman named Mary Boswell, the first page featuring a portrait with her initials, the following pages family members as well as other imagery. Some of the pages with added decorative elements feature her signed initials and a date, but other pages appear unfinished. With 19 decorated pages and more than 50 albumen print portraits, the images measuring 5 5/8x4 inches (14.3x10.2 cm.), and smaller, some pages mounted recto/verso, a few with collaged elements, three with watercolor, the rest ink; one with an image cut out; with interleafing pages. Large folio, green leather, worn. Circa 1872
Provenance: The Estate of Richard T. Rosenthal, Philadelphia
