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

Stereoscopic albumen prints mounted within pale green card, translucent tissue type (but not pierced). Transmitted light reveals bright colouring not visible by reflected light. Living tableau of a courting couple on a balcony, another young woman inside the window.

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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).