PhotographsBritish19th century

Untitled (six photographs of unidentified sitters)

1862-1888

Artists

Mary Georgiana Caroline Cecil FilmerArtist

Classification

Photographs

Technique

Albumen silver print

Medium

Album page with six carte de visite albumen silver prints mounted against a gilt background. Coronets surmount and are to either side of the top center photograph, red banners adorn bottom of page. Three photographs on bottom have hand coloring.

Culture

British

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Photographs

Dimensions

28.9 x 23.2 cm (11 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, NY, purchased from Christie's, 1978, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1982. On Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1978 to 1982

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Album page with two albumen silver prints with hand coloring and autographs. Page is hand decorated with crowns, flags, and other symbols, blue banner on bottom of page reads "Honi soit qui mal y pense; Abergeldie, October 1865." Honi soit . . . means "shamed be he who thinks evil of it," the motto of the Order of the Garter.

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