Scrap Album: An early 19th Century Scrap Album, mostly 1800 - 1830, extensive collection of varied items, including visiting cards, from all over the Continent & Britain, invitations to Balls, Exhibitions, to dine etc., numerous m/ss letters and notes. Some lottery tickets, some orig. sketches, concert programmes, ballad sheets, poster etc., and with most interesting contemporary newscutting thro-out, hundreds & hundreds of items. An unusual collection, as an Album, w.a.f. (1) * It appears the Album was assembled by Lady Elizabeth Fielding, who was the mother of Wm. Henry Fox Talbot, the pioneering photographer.
Scrap Album: An early 19th Century Scrap Album, mostly 1800 - 1830, extensive collection of varied items, including visiting cards, from all over the Continent & Britain, invitations to Balls, Exhibitions, to dine etc., numerous m/ss letters and notes. Some lottery tickets, some orig. sketches, concert programmes, ballad sheets, poster etc., and with most interesting contemporary newscutting thro-out, hundreds & hundreds of items. An unusual collection, as an Album, w.a.f. (1) * It appears the Album was assembled by Lady Elizabeth Fielding, who was the mother of Wm. Henry Fox Talbot, the pioneering photographer.
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