An American Tourist's Collection of Photographs made in England and Ireland in 1878. Views and Paintings

An American Tourist's Collection of Photographs made in England and Ireland in 1878. Views and Paintings

Bound volume

John Payne Jennings

Maker
British, 1843–1926

An American Tourist's Collection of Photographs made in England and Ireland in 1878. Views and Paintings

1878
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall (closed): 12 × 10 × 1/4 in. (30.5 × 25.4 × 0.6 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1981.1493.0001-0008
DescriptionNotebook-style album of both amateur and commercial albumen photographs, mounted 2 and 3 to a page with captions in ink. There are several street views in Dublin and of architecture at Oxford University. Included are views of Antwerp and one reproduction of a engraving of an unidentified religious painting (Descent from the Cross). Structure of album is poor; pages separated and deteriorating.
Inscriptions Typed on applied label on front cover, C: An American Tourist's Collection \ of Photographs \ made in England \ and Ireland in 1878--Views and \ Paintings.
Inscribed in pencil inside front cover, TLC: 200
Inscribed in pencil inside back cover, T: 4/16-19-6- in ay. 365 G [illegible]

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