- Subject
- Portraits
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Charles Daubeny
- Provenance
- Presented by Dr A. E. Gunther in 1986. Part of the collections of his father R. T. Gunther, founding Curator of the Museum, previously on loan to the Museum. Gunther acquired it from Edward Chapman, whose printed book label is on the pastedown. Chapman acquired it after Daubeny's death, probably at a sale.
- Primary inscriptions
- Spine title: 'Portraits | &c.'. MS title on label on front: 'Portraits of | Eminent Men | collected by | The late Dr. Daubeny'.
- Object type
- Album
- Dimensions
- Height: 550mm Width: 380mm Depth: 47mm
- Inventory No
- 11899
Description
Large album. Contains a large collection of printed portraits, mostly early and mid 19th-century engravings and lithographs, with one early photograph (of Liebig; see separate entry).
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