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Victorian family photograph album with sixty-one photographs of Russian vendors and tradesmen by William Carrick
This is a first quality Victorian family photograph album of the family of Eliza Murphy, daughter of Calvert Toulmin who was a shipowner holding the monopoly of postal carriage to Australia.
In addition to 196 'carte de visite' photographs of family members including Calvert Toulmin, of holiday destinations and of sentimental group poses, the album contains 57 photographs of Russian tradesmen and street vendors taken by William Carrick.
Viewers' key for a Panorama of Paris entitled "Topographische Erklärung des Panorama von Paris", by Pierre Prévost
This is a circular orientation key plate created by Pierre Prévost for his early 19th-century panorama of Paris. This item helped visitors identify landmarks in his large-scale 360-degree panorama, exhibited in Vienna in 1814. The vantage point for both the panorama and the key was the roof of Napoleon’s Pavillon de Flore at the Tuileries. The text around the anamorphic image is in French, with the central giving the captions in German.
Viewers' key of a panorama entitled "Lord Nelson's Attack on Copenhagen", by Robert Barker and Henry Aston Barker
"Viewer's key" to a panorama of Constantinople and the town of Scutari, by Robert Barker
This is a viewer's key for a panorama by Robert Barker, representing the City of Constantinople and the Town of Scutari [now Üsküdar, a district of Istanbul Province] from the Leander Tower, printed by J. Adlard in ca 1801. It is an exploded circular diagram, with the illustrated features numbered, and a letterpress explanatory key.
Viewer's key to a panorama of Dover, taken from the South Pier
Single sheet illustrated guide to a panorama of Dover taken from the South Pier, published by Henry Aston BArker and John Burford c 1818. The circular view of Dover from the South Pier shows the entrance to the Harbour, the Outer Basin, the cast iron tunnel intended to clear away the bar by force of water, coastal features from Shakespear Cliff and the Western Heights to the South Foreland and the various fortifications including the New Barracks and Drop Redoubt and the Castle.
Viewer's key to a panorama of Plymouth, entitled "The circle of observation in the Lower Room, Panorama, Leicester-Square. Representing a view of Plymouth"
Single sheet illustrated guide to the panorama of Plymouth, entitled "The circle of observation in the Lower Room, Panorama, Leicester-Square. Representing a view of Plymouth", displayed in the bigger of two galleries at Robert Barker's Panorama in Leicester-Square, London. Woodcut image, with letterpress text. The image reproduces the cylindrical panorama as a flat disc.
"Viewer's key" to Panorama of Constantinople and surrounding country
This is a viewers' guide to a panorama of Constantinople and surrounding country exhibited in Leicester Square, London, in 1801. The item is captioned "The Lower Circle of Observation exhibits a View of Constantinople and the Surrounding Country".
Westminster: [R. Barker], printed by J. Adlard, 1801. Broadside, 370 x 313 mm.