Stereoscopic Photograph (Albumen Prints, Translucent) of a Living Tableau of a Party, 1850s or 1860s

Stereoscopic albumen prints mounted within cream card, translucent tissue type, pierced. Transmitted light reveals colours not visible by reflected light, and lighted candles. Living tableau of figures in a crowded interior engaging in some kind of revelry.

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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).