Photograph album, with original images of the Royal Yacht, Louis Mountbatten as a baby
and with candid shots of King Edward VII, and the actors of the 1900 Oberammergau Passion Play etc
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This is a fascinating album compiled in 1900 by society photographers, possibly John and Maud Le Couteur of The Photographic Association, 16 Brook St, Mayfair (they feature in the images, with the Association's address in pencil to the inside cover) and containing a total of 108 images, among them several informal photos of the British and European Royal family including a portrait of King Edward VII, Prince Louis of Battenberg (later Lord Mountbatten) together with a unique series of 10 images aboard the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert, society groups and the Oberammergau Passion Play 1900, showing actors including Anton Lang.
The album titled 'Sunny Memories' 33 × 28 × 2.5 cms. Here is a complete list of contents:
Page 1: (5 Images)
A ship at Kingsdown, 1900
Scotland, view of Loch and hills
Three manual workers at a still
A paddle steamer
An elderly distinguished couple
Page 2: (8 images)
Ships at Kingsdown, 1900
The Duke of Newcastle and friend (The Duke encoraged Le Couteur to form the Photographic Association in 1894).
Reprint of an image of Queen Victoria
A view of New York with early skyscraper
New York, elevated railway
King Edward VII (either just before or after coronation), c1900/1901 at Ludgate Hill
A gentleman feeding pigeons on a lawn
Ships in harbour
Page 3: (9 images)
Sloper (a cat) possibly at 16 Brook Street, Hanover Sq, London.
A racehorse in action
Sheep grazing with large house behind
A mill and pond
The Royal Yacht
A cat and a dog
A wooden bridge in Wicklow
A lady (Miriam) outside a terraced house
A young lady dressed in national costume
Page 4: (5 images)
King Edward VIII in a military procession on horses, cavalry in background
Negative shot of a rigged ship
A young child
An elderly gentleman with a baby
A building exterior
Page 5 (5 images)
Lady Dorothy Nevill, Duke of Rutland, and one other lady reclining on a grass verge in front of a country house with palms, possibly the south of France.
an elderly gentleman with pipe
Two gentlemen in top hats, one in military regalia and another having a cigarette outside a house
The Empress Eugene, Cap Martin
An old farm building
Page 6 (8 images)
Interior (probably 16 Brook Street)
Major Burrows – a young gentleman with military bearing and waxed moustache
A small photograph of a cat
Studio portrait of a young lady, Lilian Pattinson
A street scene with several people
Dr Swan, a dapper looking gentleman in top hat
An unnamed slightly cocquettish looking lady, possibly at 16 Brook Street
A street scene
A rural scene showing a lady on a small jetty
Page 7 (9 images)
Another portrait of Lilian Pattinson
Seals on a rocky shoreline
Interior shot (Brook Street)
A shot of the entrance to to Paris Exhibition 1900
16 Brook St interior
A small child, possibly Indian, on street
A stately home / castle
A rigged ship in dock, with people and harbourside buildings
Entitled 'Aztecs'. A lady and gentleman of colour in full evening dress
Page 8 & 9 (six photos)
Six panoramic shots, street scene, Cowes 1900 (x2), a hilly landscape with horse and cart, boating, river scene with man in boater to foreground.
Page 10 (1 image)
A full size photograph of Prince Louis of Battenberg, later Lord Mountbatten with his mother Princess Victoria of Hesse, shortly after his birth in 1900.
Page 11 (9 images)
Madam Le Couteur at 16 Brook Street
A young child at a fountain at a stately home
Jack (John Le Couteur)
Mrs Humphrey Ward (handwritten title partially missing)
Child from no 2 on outdoor steps
Child from no 2 in garden
Young Indian (?) children playing outside, entitled 'atoms'
Interior scene of five people, some sewing Princess Victoria, Princess Christian, and Mrs Dick Cunnyngham
Interior scene at 16 Brook Street
Page 12 (7 images)
A photgraph of the Winterhalter portrait of The Empress Eugenie
Sir John Lister-Kaye, seated
A small informal shot of King Edward VII on a terrace (titled 'The King')
John Le Couteur in academic robe and mortar board
Sir H Rumbold
Two ladies with white horse (one mounted)
Two ladies in a small horse / donkey – facing away from camera
Page 13 (5 images)
A terrier
Howick 1900 – group scene of about 13 people seated outside)
'Mater'
Two cats, with lightly handcoloured collars
A cat on a roof
Page 14 & 15 (9 images)
Nine photos from the Oberammergau Passion Play of 1900, showing players including Anton Lang, the German actor and potter who played Jesus, and Johannes Peter Rendl, amongst others
Page 16
Single large image of Captain Deasy (1866–1947)
Page 17 (6 images)
All of yachts, 3 annotated in pencil as Lady AA
Page 18 & 19 (10 images)
Ten informal shots aboard King Edward's yacht HMY Victoria & Albert, showing the deck, the ship's wheel, the captain and officers, dancing, dogs etc
Pages 20–24
Four large photographs of Kells and one of salmon leaping in Scotland
Condition
The whole in worn condition, the binding cracked with the majority of pages loose / disbound, scattered foxing and damage to the card mounts as pictured, the images good, some with fading, two later ownership inscriptions to the front pastedown.
Further images are available on request.
Price
£150.00
