Group portrait of participants in the 1876-77 conference at Constantinople (Istanbul) on the Eastern Question, photographed by the firm of Abdullah. A letterpress key beneath the image identifies the sitters as follows: back row (standing), Count Chaudordy, the Marquis of Salisbury, Baron Calice...
Three-quarter length seated full-face portrait of the novelist William Black (1841-1898), author of 'A daughter of Heth' (1871), 'The strange adventures of a phaeton' (1872), 'A prince of Thule' (1874), etc. With an autobiographical memoir.
Three-quarter length seated portrait of the Russian General Michael Gregorovitch Tchernaieff (1828-1898). With biographical memoir by Archibald Forbes.
Three-quarter length portrait of the sculptor Thomas Woolner (1825-1892), seated at a table with a book. With biographical memoir by Justin H. McCarthy.
Three-quarter length seated portrait, in uniform, of the Russian Ambassador in London, Nicholas Pavlovitch Ignatieff, Russian military officer and Ambassador to the Court of St James. With biographical memoir by H. Sutherland Edwards.
The Right Hon. A. H. Layard, D.C.L. Photographer: Unknown
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Three-quarter length seated full-face portrait of Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894), politician, traveller and excavator of Nineveh. With biographical memoir by Blanchard Jerrold.
Half-length portrait of the German composerWilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883), in right profile and wearing a velvet cap. With biographical memoir by Francis Hueffer.