Photographic album once owned by Miss Mabel Annie Burnip (1893-1984). The album may have been bequeathed to Mabel Burnip from Dr Ethel Mary Nucella Williams (1863-1948) of Stocksfield, UK. This highly decorated Victorian album contains photographic images collaged with hand- painted borders and embellishments. The album pages contain a mixture of photographic reproductions of paintings that depict social, historical, and religious scenes or events alongside domestic family photographs and cartes-de-visites of notable people including royal and military figures. The album is bound in red leather with the name ‘MARY’ embossed in gold on the front cover.

This is a page in a photograph album. It features an albumen photograph of a young woman holding up a fruit bowl, as she looks over her shoulder at the viewer. The photograph is rectangular and has been pasted into the album. The photograph has then been given a hand-painted decorative surround depicting peaches and peach fruit flowers and leaves growing around a lattice border that frames the photographic print.

The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.

Photographic album once owned by Miss Mabel Annie Burnip (1893-1984) who was born in County Durham, UK. This highly decorated Victorian album contains photographic prints collaged with hand painted embellishments and decorative borders. The album pages contain a mixture of family photographs and carte-de-visite albumen prints of well-known figures including royals and military persons.

RPS.1177:7-2019