4306 - 4510 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
- Upper hinge broken.
= Annie Barton might refer to Susannah Barton, wife of John Sterling (1806-1844), or to her sister Anna Eleanor Barton, wife of F.D. Maurice; both were friends of Caroline Fox). Almost all photographs were made by an anonymous photographer in the early years of photography (Anthony Coningham Sterling, older brother of John Sterling, was an active amateur photographer in th 1840s); many come w. an identification of the sitters in near contemp. hand, i.a. ANNA MARIA FOX (Caroline's sister), W.M. THACKERAY (by ERNEST EDWARDS), SIR COLIN CAMPBELL LORD CLYDE (British field marshal), JANE WELSH CARLYLE (Carlyle's wife), CHARLES FOX OF TREBAH (Quaker scientist), EDWARD CONINGHAM STERLING, "Robert Fox's daughter Caroline" (a photograph of a portrait of Caroline by Samuel Laurence [different from the orig. drawing in this album), ANNA MARIA FOX ("Robert's daughter"), "Fox - brother of Robert & Charles", ARCHDEACON WILLIAM JOHN PHILPOTTS and various members of the BARTON family (i.a. Annie Barton, John Stirling's wife). The diarist Caroline Fox (1816-1897), came from an influential Quaker family in Cornwall. Her diaries (and those of her brother Barclay Fox) were posthumously published. Many members of the Fox family activily promoted various sorts of industrial, cultural and religious initiatives. They mingled with the likes of Thomas Carlyle, W.M. Thackeray, John Sterling, John Stuart Mill, F.D. Maurice and Samuel Laurence. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
= 1. Imagine; 2. Reaching; 3. Mother and Child; 4. Door to the Past; 5. Secret; 6. Scream; 7. Galatea; 8. Circe's Cave; 9. Coal Mime; 10. Pierrot; 11. Epiphany; 12. Bathtub.
= Jean-Gaspard Deguerry, priest of the Sainte-Madeleine, was executed on 24 May 1871 alongside i.a. the Archbishop of Paris in a response by the French called "La Semaine sanglate" (beginning on 21 May 1871) on the refusal of the Paris Commune to accept the authority of the French goverment. This card was part of a memorial album for Catholic priests fallen during the Commune of Paris.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVI.
= Views of various regions in France and its colonies (32x, i.a. French Sudan (present day Mali), Senegal, Cameroon and Ivory Coast).
= Some photographers: Henry Death, J. Walter (London), Adolph Erkelens, Bertha Steinfels (Aachen).
- Occas. sm. imperfections/ defects.
= I.a. of Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Freiburg, Hamburg, Kassel and Kiel.
= Photograph for a series of articles published in the San Francisco Examiner.
AND 2 other press photographs of Maxim Gorki, i.a. posing with his niece (1929).
- A few tiny chips in lower margin. = Photographer and scene identified on accomp. ms. note.
Leijer, A.C. (1856-1908). (Water extraction company). Albumen print, 27x23 cm., mounted on board, w. printed captions "Mej. A.C. Leijer" and "Kerkgracht 20, Den Helder" on mount below. - AND 2 other miscell. photographs.
= Refering to the work of Johannes Vermeer.
- A few sm. stains.
= Both modern impressions after 1996.
= Modern impressions (after 1996).