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Cameron, Julia Margaret (compiler). THE "SIGNOR 1857" ALBUM 35 photographs by various photographers including Cameron, Reginald Southey, Oscar Rejlander, and 2nd Earl Brownlow, all mounted individually on one side only within an album (one leaf now loose), comprising 3 salted paper prints and 32 albumen prints (see list below), 24 images with later inscriptions in pencil by Mary Seton Watts identifying the sitters and occasionally with other notes, one inscription in ink by George Frederic Watts, a few annotations by Julia Margaret Cameron and with further pencil inscriptions in two further hands, one providing children’s ages, the other identifying sitters, also with a later inscription on the front pastedown giving an (incorrect) summary of the content, four stubs, one page with adhesive residue where a photograph or other insertion has apparently been removed, 35 pages, plus blanks, 4to (246 x 197mm), green morocco, marbled endpapers, gilt borders and gilt stamped on upper cover “Signor. 1857”, covers spotted and rubbed The photographs (all dimensions are maximum dimensions) comprise: 1. John William Spencer Brownlow Egerton-Cust, 2nd Earl Brownlow, [George Frederic Watts, ¾ profile before the doors of the North Porch at Ashridge, Hertfordshire], 1865, albumen print (vignetted), 75 x 69mm, previously unrecorded 2. Unidentified photographer, [Photograph of an untraced pencil study by G F Watts of Adeline Jackson), 1850s], mid to late 1850s, 92 x 74mm [other copies: Lansdowne Album (private collection, UK), Julia Hay Norman album (hereafter JHN, National Media Museum, UK)] 3. Unidentified photographer, [Photograph of an untraced chalk study by G F Watts of Julia Margaret Cameron probably 1852], mid to late 1850s, albumen print (cropped to oval), 203 x 168mm, [other copies: Lansdowne Album, Sibella Norman 1859 Album (hereafter SN 1859 , National Media Museum, UK), Mia Album (private collection, USA)] 4. Unidentified photographer, [Photograph of an untraced pencil study by G F Watts of Emma Brandling, later Lady Lilford], mid to late 1850s, albumen print (cropped to oval), 108 x 87mm, previously unrecorded 5. Unidentified photographer, [Photograph of an untraced painting by G F Watts of Julia Hay Norman, née Cameron, probably early 1850s], mid to late 1850s, albumen print, 101 x 80mm [other copies: SN1859] 6. Unidentified photographer, [Photograph of colour chalk drawing by G.F. Watts of Virginia Julian Dalrymple, 1853], 1853 to late 1850s, albumen print, 104 x 90mm, previously unrecorded 7. Unidentified photographer, [Photograph of an untraced pencil study by G.F.Watts of Lady Charlotte Guest, probably 1854], 1854-late 1850s, albumen print, 140 x 118mm, previously unrecorded 8. Unidentified photographer, [Photograph of an untraced chalk study by G F Watts of Sir Ivor Guest, 1857], c. 1857, albumen print, 140 x 119mm, previously unrecorded 9. Unidentified photographer, [Photograph of an untraced pencil study by G F Watts of Henry Thoby Prinsep, mid to late 1850s, albumen print, 117 x 111mm, [other copies: Lansdowne] 10. Unidentified photographer, [Photograph of a chalk drawing by G.F. Watts of James Spedding c. 1853], mid to late 1850s, albumen print, 198 x 130mm, [other copies: Lansdowne, Mia] 11. O.G. Rejlander(?), Portrait of William Bayley (1849-1867)], c. 1863, albumen print, 113 x 75mm [other copies: Mia, SN1859, JHN] 12. after Julia Margaret Cameron Portrait of Sir John Herschel April 1867 or later, albumen copy print, 94 x 71mm [Cox & Ford, no. 676] The following sequence begins at the back of the album: 13. James Mudd or Joseph Cundall (?), [Portrait of Sir Henry Taylor seated], 1857-8, albumen print, 225 x 178mm, inscribed in pencil by M.S. Watts on the album (“by J.M. Cameron” and “Sir Henry Taylor author of Philip van Artevelde”) [other copies: Lansdowne] 14. James Mudd or Joseph Cundall (?), [Portrait of Henry Herschel Hay Cameron seated, hat on knee], 1857-8, albumen print, 197 x 150mm, inscribed in pencil by