[Photograph album, mostly of members of the Parker family, of Saltram, dated 1860-65, also including some commercially sold prints of members of the French nobility].
Parker of Saltram House, Devon
Category
Photographs
Date
1865
Materials
Place of origin
[not published]
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Saltram, Devon
NT 3043022
Summary
Bibliographic description
[17] leaves . 15.5cm.. Bookseller's price codes in pencil on flyleaf.. Provenance: No marks of provenance, but evidently Parker family of Saltram.. Binding: Commercially produced photograph album with window pockets 5.5 x 8.5cm. Photographs are printed on thin paper and mounted on light card (rather than the usual heavy board of 'carte de visite'. Within elaborately carved wooden boards: the back and outer edges of the front as tree bark; a medallion on the front carved as a stag among trees. Clasp. Woodworm damage to binding.
Makers and roles
Parker of Saltram House, Devon