Stereoscopic Photograph (Albumen Prints, Hand Coloured) of a Living Tableau of Domestic Recreations, 1850s or 1860s

Stereoscopic albumen prints mounted on card, curved tops, hand coloured. Living tableau of domestic recreations, including man and woman singing at a piano, two girls playing a game, and figures beyond (left) one of whom is looking into a stereoscope. The unusual depth of figures and open doors gives a good stereoscopic effect.

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Part of a group of 35 stereoscopic photographs (all albumen prints), chiefly genre scenes, living tableaux, and story sequences, and topographical subjects, both commercial and private. They belonged to Arthur Aldred, most being initialled and numbered on the back, and one of them inscribed: "A. Aldred Esqr | Dene House | Gt. Yarmouth" (probably the house depicted in the photograph); number 1 is a family group. With them as acquired were stereoscopic photographs of birds of later date, now catalogued separately (92612).