Inscription: Handwritten on the drawing and album page; 'Fribourg'. A pencil drawing sketched from the banks of the river showing part of the wooden bridge known at the Bern Bridge, with the stone gatehouse to the left.
Inscription: Handwritten on album page; 'In the Spoletana'. A pencil drawing of a winding mountainous road with farm buildings on either side of a bend, the building on the left is partially hidden by a tree.
Inscription: Handwritten along drawing; 'Castel a Mare June 22 1817'. Pencil drawing of the promenade along the bay with several people looking out to sea; on the opposite bank there is a row of boats with tall masts.
[Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: c [Handwritten in pencil by Talbot.] Genre: Portrait Photography Studio portrait of the French zoologist seated in a chair and facing the right. Copper plate photoglyphic engraving. Image size 80 x 45 mm, press imprint size 84 x 50 mm, paper size 141 x 112 mm.
[Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: c [Handwritten in pencil by Talbot.] Genre: Portrait Photography Studio portrait of the French zoologist seated in a chair and facing the right. Copper plate photoglyphic engraving. Image size 80 x 45 mm, press imprint size 84 x 50 mm, paper size 143 x 112 mm.
Genre: Portrait Photography One of two copies (prints 637 and 638) of this subject, a vignette of gamekeeper standing on a trough and leaning against wall, with rifle in his hands. Historically this photograph has been attributed to: T.D. Eaton, B.B. Turner and S. Buckle. The sitter is the same...
Genre: Portrait Photography One of two copies (prints 637 and 638) of this subject, a vignette of gamekeeper standing on a trough and leaning against wall, with rifle in his hands. Historically this photograph has been attributed to: T.D. Eaton, B.B. Turner and S. Buckle. The sitter is the same...
Inscription: Printed below drawing; 'Victor Adam del. Lith de Lemercier. Retour de L'Ile d'Elbe. 1815'. Lithograph by Victor Adam and de Lemercier referring to Napoleon's exile to the Island of Elba. Napoleon stands in the centre with his personal guards to his right, each waving their hats in ...
[An Engraving depicting] Map of the Island of Elba.
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Map of the island showing the main towns and roads; in the bottom right corner, there is an inset map showing the island in relation to the Italian and Corsican coastline.
Inscription: Handwritten on album page; 'Il Castello di Lerici'. A pencil drawing of the castle atop the cragged promontory, with the town to the right.