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Photograph album
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Rare slides sold at auction reveal scenes from 1922 British Everest Expedition
13 February 2017THESE days climbing Everest is a bit old hat. Don’t get me wrong – people still die in the attempt and it is a massive achievement – but more than 4000 people have climbed the world’s highest mountain since it was first conquered in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
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19th century photographs of the ‘real Downton Abbey’ to be auctioned
12 January 2017A photograph album of the ‘real Downton Abbey’ has been revealed after 120 years and will be up for auction next month.
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Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson wedding photos double estimate at auction at Bellmans
02 December 2016Rarely seen photographs of the wedding that caused a constitutional crisis and rocked the British monarchy have been sold at £9200.
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Book on stereoscopy photography featuring Victorian fashion disasters released
27 May 2016While other rock stars were demolishing hotel rooms or setting their trousers and their instruments alight, Queen guitarist Brian May was busy buying Victorian photographs.
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Dressed to kill
15 May 2014This bizarrely dressed young man is the 23-year-old Alfred Hitchock, the film director who went on to make Psycho, North by North West, The Birds and Vertigo.
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Photo album reveals a bloody expedition into Tibet
19 August 2013The battleground is Tibet. Invading troops massacre poorly armed peasant soldiers standing bravely in their way, doomed to defeat against a much more powerful, modern opponent.
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Early photographs of China make treble estimate at Sotheby’s
14 January 2013An early photographic album which has sold for a record-breaking £290,000 came into the hands of its first owner 140 years ago as a prize – for winning a pigeon-shooting competition.
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Taking flight in Salisbury
10 May 2012An album containing over 200 photographs belonging to Flight Lieutenant Herbert Carmichael “Bird” Irwin (1894-1930), captain of the airship R101, is to be offered for sale at Netherhampton Salerooms in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on May 16.
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A travel album par excellence
05 October 2009BORN a wealthy European aristocrat and court painter to a Turkish Sultan, the Maltese count Vittorio Amadeo Preziosi (1816-1882) was nevertheless a familiar figure among the back streets of Istanbul.
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Photos of Canadian settlement project sell in Lincoln
17 March 2008It was in 1908 that the American entrepreneur Charles Barnes convinced the British Columbia Development Association (BCDA), a London-based investment syndicate, to purchase 6000 acres of land to establish a farming community for British settlers next to the Thompson River.
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A right royal album from the nanny’s estate
07 February 2005Preview: One of the classic images of the Victorian era is the picture of the resolute monarch on horseback with her trusted servant and confidant John Brown. This photograph, taken in 1864, is to be found in a remarkable album of memorabilia that the auctioneers Sebök (17.24% buyer’s premium) in the Bavarian city of Bamberg are offering on March 5.
Chinese photograph albums
05 May 2004TWO albums of 19th century Chinese photographs assembled by a British diplomat sold for £5200 in a general antiques sale held by Sworders at Stansted Mountfitchet, on March 30.
25 lenses put Exeter in the world picture
23 May 2002Major photograph sales are usually confined to London and New York salerooms, but since selling the Earl Craven family archive of daguerreotypes last year Bearne’s of Exeter (buyer’s premium 15 per cent) are now on the international circuit.
The Lady of the Seashells?
19 December 2001Sold for £90,000 as part of the November 15 Natural History & Travel sale at Sotheby’s was an album of 162 conchological watercolours put together c.1764-82 by Mlle. J.C. Xavery, a miniaturist of Dutch descent and probably the sister of the flower and landscape painter Jacob Xavery, who was working in Paris around the same time.
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