Dec 08, 2009 - Sale 2199

Sale 2199 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,500 - $ 5,500
BEDFORD, FRANCIS (1816-1894)
Album containing 72 exterior and interior ecclesiastical views of abbeys and cathedrals in the British Isles, including Tintern, Croyland, Glastonbury and Llanthony Abbeys as well as Bristol, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Lincoln, Peterborough, St. David, Salisbury and Wells cathedrals in addition to castles in Exeter, Ludlow and Reglan. Albumen prints, 11x9 1/2 inches (27.9x24.1 cm.), many with Bedford's credit in the negative. With one photograph per leaf; each with a period handwritten caption on mount recto; many with the Thompson and Co's "Series of Architectural Photographs" label affixed to mount verso. Oblong folio, rebound in green cloth. Circa 1870

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From the collection of Hon. Robert W. Turner, who was Consul General to Spain from 1889-1893; gifted to a midwestern public institution.