c. 1860-1880
15.4 × 19 cm (6 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Private Collection, United Kingdom, since circa 1970. [Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018
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 five carte de visite albumen silver prints
19th centuryBritishAlbumen silver print mounted on page.
19th centuryBritishLeather bound album of albumen prints. Cover is tooled, gilt wording and decorations on spine and front cover, pages are gilt edged.
19th centuryBritish?