PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 28: MELVILLE CASTLE ALBUM Album containing carte-de-visite portraits and views of Melville Castle and one photograph of the Prentice Pillar at Roslin Chapel.
PA 28
Description PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 28: MELVILLE CASTLE ALBUM Album containing carte-de-visite portraits and views of Melville Castle and one photograph of the Prentice Pillar at Roslin Chapel.
Date c. 1860 to 1879
Collection General Collection. Photograph Albums.
Catalogue Number PA 28
Category All Other
Scope and Content PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM NO 28: MELVILLE CASTLE ALBUM Small carte-de-viste photograph album in brown leather with portrait of a dog on porcelain c.1860 on the front cover. The porcelain is broken. Purchased at MacNaughton's bookshop c.1986 The album contains three exterior views of Melville Castle, Lasswade, a group portrait outside the castle, a ‘rustic bridge over the River Esk near the castle’, a view of the Prentice Pillar at Roslin Chapel, a couple with a donkey outside Cotterstockhall, Oundle, Northamptonshire and a view of Epworth Church, Lincolnshire by the Manchester Photographic Company Limited (after 1865). The majority of the images are carte-de-visite portraits. Studios include James Walker, Doncaster; Southwell Brothers, Baker Street, London; Elliot & Fry, Baker Street, London; Samuel A Walker, Margaret Street, London from 1873 of ‘Dr Pusty’; Lock & Whitfield, Regent Street, London; Lambert Weston & Son, Dover and Folkstone; J Henderson, Albert Place, Perth; John Ross, Edinburgh and North Berwick; A J Melhuish, York Place, Portman Square, London post 1865; T Rodger, St Andrews; H Thomson, Marshall Place, Perth; Henry J Godbold, Grand Parade, St Leonards-on-sea of ‘AH’ from 1870 (p.22); Jabez Hughes, Ryde, Isle of Wight; Mayall, Regent Street, London; J Roberts, Draycott-in-the-Clays, Sudbury, Stoke on Trent; Hills and Saunders, Oxford and Cambridge; Maull & Co, London; J Guggenheim, High Street, Oxford; Hollinson, Oxford of ‘William Brown Kerr, 75.9.24’ (p. 36); G Shaw, Edinburgh of ‘Anne Smith’ (p. 37); H Lenthall. Regent Street, London; Smartt & Son, Leamington; Surrey Photo Comp, High St, Guildford; A Brothers, St Ann’s Square, Manchester of ‘John Kendall, 1879. b. 1814?’ (p. 42) and Disderi & Co, Boulevard des Italiens, Paris. One carte-de-visite without a studio is titled ‘Edward King D.D. Canon of Ch: Ch: & Reg Prof of Pastoral Theol: xx Nov 1873’ (p. 15).
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