FELICE BEATO, SAMUEL BOURNE, H.W., WILLIAM NOTMAN and others

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FELICE BEATO, SAMUEL BOURNE, H.W., WILLIAM NOTMAN and others

Travel albums of the Percival family, 1850s-90s

Two albums containing a total of over 650 photographs, the majority albumen prints, approx. half carte-de-visite-size, other sizes approx. 4 x 5½ in. to 10 x 13¾ in. or the reverse, several signed, numbered and/or titled in the negatives, variously mounted, the majority titled in ink on mounts, one inscribed in ink My Grandmother's photograph album. Mrs. Lewis Percival (née Isabella Agnes Draper Elliott) M.J. McMeckan 1955 on front blank, the other inscribed in ink in a later hand This Book. no...was collected by my Grandmother Mrs. Lewis Percival in...M.J. McMeckan 1955 on front free page, half morocco, ruled in gilt, g.e., folio and large 4to.; with a watercolour sketch of Abingdon House Northampton, miscellaneous printed ephemera and a few loose photographs.
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At least five photographs by Beato of Lucknow including a portrait of General Grant; views, architectural studies, and portraits of military figures, members of the Percival family of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, the Higgins, and the Williams family of Quebec; thirty-five views of India including Darjeeling, Bombay, Calcutta, Kanpur, Benares, Simla, Agra, portraits of northern Indians and temple studies.