Photograph Album
ca. 1870s (made)
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This is a page in a photograph album. Four black and white albumen photographs in oval shapes have been pasted onto the page. The top image shows a seated young man with short hair and a beard. The image on the right is a portrait of a young woman seated and looking off to the left, so her face is in profile. The image at the bottom is a portrait of a young child, just their face is visible against the white background as the image is vignetted to draw attention to the child’s face. The image to the right is an upper body portrait of a seated man with a moustache and full beard. A hand-painted watercolour surround of colour flowers and leaves has been added around and between the photographs as though linking them together.
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| Materials and techniques | Albumen photographic prints pasted into album with a hand-painted watercolour botanical surround. |
| Brief description | 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. |
| Physical description | This is a page in a photograph album. Four black and white albumen photographs in oval shapes have been pasted onto the page. The top image shows a seated young man with short hair and a beard. The image on the right is a portrait of a young woman seated and looking off to the left, so her face is in profile. The image at the bottom is a portrait of a young child, just their face is visible against the white background as the image is vignetted to draw attention to the child’s face. The image to the right is an upper body portrait of a seated man with a moustache and full beard. A hand-painted watercolour surround of colour flowers and leaves has been added around and between the photographs as though linking them together. |
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| Credit line | The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund. |
| Object history | 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. |
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| Accession number | RPS.1177:28-2019 |
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| Record created | October 22, 2019 |
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