1862-1888
28.9 x 23.2 cm (11 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
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
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.
19th centuryBritishAlbum page with albumen silver print; verso: albumen silver print.
19th centuryBritishAlbum page with three carte de visite albumen silver prints. Top photograph is framed in blue paint and decorated with a ribbon and bow motif, photographs on bottom are framed with pink paint surmounted by monograms.
19th centuryBritishAlbum page with seven albumen silver prints trimmed to fit within border of six pointed star painted in red and gilt paint.
19th centuryBritishAlbum page with albumen silver print
19th centuryBritishAlbum page with three albumen silver prints; verso: five albumen silver prints.
19th centuryBritish