Beschreibung:

MORRELL, Lady Ottoline: CAMERAS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT. A collection, comprising: Ica, Dresden; comprising: a 9 x 12cm. Ideal camera no. H93091 with a Carl Zeiss, Jena Tessar f/4.5 15cm. lens no. 478246 in a dial-set Compur shutter; a 9 x 12cm./rollfilm Lloyd 510 camera no. H53272 with an Ica Litonar Anastigmat f/6.8 13.5cm. lens no. 569882; a 3¼ x 5¼ inch/rollfilm Nixe 595 no. J70417 with a Carl Zeiss, Jena Tessar f/4.5 15cm. lens no. 559162 in a dial-set Compur shutter; two film pack adapters; one rollfilm back and a quantity of single metal slides. THE CAMERAS WITH WHICH LADY OTTOLINE TOOK SOME OF THE MOST EVOCATIVE LITERARY PORTRAITS OF THE PERIOD, including those collected in Lady Ottoline's Album: Snapshots and Portraits of Her Famous Contemporaries (1976). Ottoline Morrell was a dedicated amateur photographer who recorded on film the extraordinary range of artists, philosophers, writers and aesthetes she knew in her career as a social and literary hostess. The collections of the National Portrait Gallery include more than 1,500 vintage 'snapshot' prints of photographs taken by her between 1908 and 1935, consisting not only of pictures of family and friends, but of mementos of her trips to France, Italy and elsewhere. As well as the many portraits, there are landscapes, city views and photographs of memorable events including George V and Queen Mary passing Morrell's house in Gower Street on their way to lay a foundation stone. (7)