North East Scotland
Aboyne Castle, Gladstone family and Royal interest
Estimate: £200 - £240
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
9 albumen photographs, 16 x 11.5cm, pasted on cut album pages relating to Aboyne Castle, 1871, of the Prince of Wales and Lady Huntly at a ceremony on Aboyne Bridge, castle views and 3 related small portrait photographs from 1865, 9 x 6cm; album of 16 photographs relating to Fyvie, with 7 loose photographs including Fyvie Castle, Kinbroon, Rothie Norman, Blackford, Mill of Tifty, Towie-Barclay, 23.5 x 18.5cm to 8.5 x 5.5cm, album stained and disbound, photographs foxed; album of Old Inverugie, A Lecture, published 1885 with 7 photographs, 9.5 x 6cm, pasted in, occasional foxing to pages, one photograph faded, cover starting to detach, spine and edges worn; disbound album of 200+ small contact prints, 5 x 3.5cm, taken at Fasque by a member of Sir Thomas Gladstone's family between 1897 and 1900, some are titled on the album pages, and 5 cartes de visite including Thomas Gladstone by Camile Silvy and other relatives, the cartes are water damaged and delaminated, the album disbound and water damaged, photographs mainly loose; photograph of Queen Mary, Princess Mary, The Dowager Countess of Airlie and Mrs Lindsay Carnegie, Arbroath, 8th September 1921, by Gibson of Arbroath, 19.5 x 15cm (quantity)
Provenance
Formerly owned by the Late Murray Mackinnon, a renowned collector of photography documenting Scottish life from the mid-19th to early-20th century.