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Auction archive: Lot number 48

W. & D. DOWNEY, THE STEREOSCOPIC CO., HILLS & SAUNDERS, KNIGHT (Aldershot), BRUTON (Cape Town), RUSSELL & SONS (Chichester), MONTABONE (Turin) and others

Auction 19.11.1997
19 Nov 1997
Estimate
£80 - £120
ca. US$135 - US$202
Price realised:
£437
ca. US$737
Auction archive: Lot number 48

W. & D. DOWNEY, THE STEREOSCOPIC CO., HILLS & SAUNDERS, KNIGHT (Aldershot), BRUTON (Cape Town), RUSSELL & SONS (Chichester), MONTABONE (Turin) and others

Auction 19.11.1997
19 Nov 1997
Estimate
£80 - £120
ca. US$135 - US$202
Price realised:
£437
ca. US$737
Beschreibung:

W. & D. DOWNEY, THE STEREOSCOPIC CO., HILLS & SAUNDERS, KNIGHT (Aldershot), BRUTON (Cape Town), RUSSELL & SONS (Chichester), MONTABONE (Turin) and others British and European royalty, aristocracy, Heads of State, actresses and others, 1860s - early 1900s Sixty-four cartes-de-visite and six cabinet cards, the majority albumen prints, but including gelatin silver and carbon prints, the majority with photographers' printed credits on mounts, sitters identified on mounts or on attached paper labels. Including Charles Knight's Her Majesty's Gracious Smile cabinet portrait of Queen Victoria, a cabinet portrait by J. E. Bruton of Cape Town of Cetywayo's Wives, Suleiman Pasha, Abdul Hamid II Sultan of Turkey and a composite titled Upwards of five hundred photographic portraits of the most celebrated personages of the age... (70)

Auction archive: Lot number 48
Auction:
Datum:
19 Nov 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

W. & D. DOWNEY, THE STEREOSCOPIC CO., HILLS & SAUNDERS, KNIGHT (Aldershot), BRUTON (Cape Town), RUSSELL & SONS (Chichester), MONTABONE (Turin) and others British and European royalty, aristocracy, Heads of State, actresses and others, 1860s - early 1900s Sixty-four cartes-de-visite and six cabinet cards, the majority albumen prints, but including gelatin silver and carbon prints, the majority with photographers' printed credits on mounts, sitters identified on mounts or on attached paper labels. Including Charles Knight's Her Majesty's Gracious Smile cabinet portrait of Queen Victoria, a cabinet portrait by J. E. Bruton of Cape Town of Cetywayo's Wives, Suleiman Pasha, Abdul Hamid II Sultan of Turkey and a composite titled Upwards of five hundred photographic portraits of the most celebrated personages of the age... (70)

Auction archive: Lot number 48
Auction:
Datum:
19 Nov 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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