Inscription: Handwritten along top of drawing; 'Alla Morinella Selinunte July 1817' and on album page 'Selinunte'. Pencil drawing of the ruins of the Greek temple with two male figures leaning against a rock and the sea visible along the skyline.
Genre: Architectural Photography View of square with the Hôtel de Ville and neighbouring theatre, 'Pl.III' printed in top right corner, so presumably originally intended for a book illustration. Photoglyphic engraving from original negative possibly by Claude Marie Ferrier. Imprint size 189 x 2...
[Tolbooth, Cannongate, Edinburgh.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography View diagonally across a street to the tolbooth. Steel plate photoglyphic engraving from original stereograph by William Walker. Image size 74 x 61 mm, press imprint size 101 x 127 mm, paper size 112 x 152 mm.
Inscription: Inscribed in ink; 'Lago di Como'. A pencil drawing of a waterfall working its way down a mountainside to Lake Como with houses on either side and a stone bridge at the base of the waterfall.
Inscription: Written on label attached to endpage; 'Couvet Val de Flavers'. Pencil drawing of a stone bridge that crosses a river; on either side of which there are wooden farm buildings.
[An Engraving depicting] Sloperton Cottage, Devizes, Wilts., Residence of Thomas Moore Esqr.
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Inscription: Printed under engraving; 'Engraved by Brook & Melville. Sloperton Cottage, Devizes, Wilts, Residence of Thomas Moore Esqr.' Engraving of the façade and front lawn of the country cottage with its thatched roof.
[Ink Drawing of] Cathédrale à Mayence sur le Mein et le Rhin.
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Inscription: Inscribed in ink; 'Cathédrale à Mayence sur le Mein & le Rhin. 11th August 1822'. Ink study of the exterior of the apse of Mayence Cathedral. A poem about the Rhine is written on the reverse of the page.
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil; 'Thurnberg on the Mouse. R.T. February - Cop. from nr Main'. Pencil sketch with white wash drawn by the side of the Rhine looking across to a church by the banks of the river and Thurnberg Castle atop the hill. Probably drawn by Amélina Petit de Billier from a ...
Inscription: Printed under lithograph; 'M del et lightog. 1826/ Genoa'. Lithograph of the harbour with the shoreline to the right and the lighthouse known as the Lanterna di Genova immediately opposite. In the foreground two men are fishing.
[Alpine Street.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View along an alpine street with rows of chalets on either side. Photoglyphic engraving from stereograph by unspecified photographer. Image size 67 x 70 mm, press imprint size 97 x 127 mm, paper size 138 x 221 mm.