Lot 207
Scrap and photograph albums
Collection of albums, early 19th century and later
£756
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Photograph album containing two early photographs, possibly salted paper prints from calotype negatives, c.1860, one depicting a pointed arch bridge over a river in a wooded landscape (17.5 x 14.8cm), another depicting a church with features including a porch with a crow-stepped gable (15.2 x 12.4cm), together with approx. 45 albumen-print photographs mainly of Aberdeenshire, Deeside, most signed in the negative by John Valentine or George Washington Wilson;
Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, c.1800-1810, also including: The Praises of Aberdeen, sung by a Wandering Bard, viz. Logan Loveit, printed for the author, 8th October 1807 (printed broadside); ‘The Ladies Diary' (manuscript verse on 2 sheets); pen-and-ink sketch of a man-of-war; Explanation of the Beautiful View of Messina, in Sicily … now exhibiting in the great Rotunda of the Panorama, Leicester Square, London: J. Adlard, [1811) (printed broadside, creased); and similar;
Album of newspaper and magazine cuttings, c.1810-20, in poor condition with much material loose, contents including: ‘Fanaticism, account of a sutee. By an eye witness. Burdwan, Nov 27th 1820’, manuscript, 2 pp.; several manuscript poems; hand-coloured etched caricatures including R. Dighton, ‘The Specious Orator’, 1794, ‘Poor John Bull, The Free Born Englishman, J. Bairburn, 1819’; stipple-engraved portraits of French statesmen and notables of the Napoleonic era.
Together with: 5 other albums including: album of lithographs and etchings, mid-19th century, including William Heath, ‘We Have the Exhibition to Examine’, various costume prints, genre scenes, landscapes, etc. many hand-coloured; 2 photograph albums; Jerusalem tourist album of photogravures and flower cuttings; Straloch estate manuscript notebook, 1896-1930; and a folder of prints and watercolours, 19th century
Provenance
From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.
