| Description | Leather bound photograph album with card pages, decorated inside with floral designs and gold leaf detailing around edges. The album is dedicated to "R. W. Coventry from his aff[ection]ate schoolfellows" listed as: A. Ashley, G. Montgomerie, W. Greene, C. Bruce, J. Dodson, G. Derriman, G. Foljambe, C. Pechell, W. Drinsdale, R. Campion, C. Long, C. Forester, T. Russell, J. Hornby, L. Brassey, F. Chaplin, H. Agar, E. Holland, A. Warre, G. Suttie, S. Stewart, M. Bell, C. Fletcher, [jex?] Blake, J. Robarts, E. Kerry, L. Cadogan, C. Chaplin, E. Alston, A. Lane, C. Wyndham, F. Campion ,F. Compton, A. Meade, A. Downshire, A. Pennant and E. Warre.
Many of the photographs have pencil notes underneath indicating the name of the sitter.
Contents:
p. 2 Lady Blanche Countess of Coventry.
p. 2 (reverse) possibly Mabel Bruce.
p. 3 Unidentified young male.
p. 3 (reverse) Unidentified male, aged around 30 to 40 years.
p. 4 Two photographs of Lady Blanche Countess of Coventry.
p. 4 (reverse) George William, Viscount Deerhurst [b. 1865] (left) and Charles Coventry [b. 1867] (right).
p. 5 Possibly Henry Coventry [b. 1868] (top left); George William, Viscount Deerhurst (top right); Lady Barbara Coventry [b. 1870] (bottom left) and Lady Dorothy Coventry [b. 1872] (bottom right).
p. 5 (reverse) Lady Barbara Coventry (top left); Lady Dorothy Coventry (top right); Lady Anne Coventry [b. 1874] (bottom left); [Reginald?] William Coventry [b. 1869] (bottom right).
p. 6 blank.
p. 6 (reverse) Unidentified male, aged around 40 to 50 years.
p. 7 Reverend Hugh Bennett.
p. 7 (reverse) blank.
p. 8 Unidentified young male sat with a walking cane.
p. 8 (reverse) Unidentified lady, aged around 20 to 30, in fine dress.
p. 9 Male, with a pen note on the photograph saying "F. E. Ausoff", possibly the name of the sitter.
p. 9 (reverse) Unidentified male, aged around 18 to 25, dressed in ceremonial military attire.
p. 10 to 24 left blank.
p. 25 Pirton Church (top left) and Reginald Coventry [b. 1869] (bottom right).
p. 25 (reverse) Croome Court (top left); Reginald Coventry (top right); bottom left and right show two group photographs of various individuals sat on a mountain side.
Prints are largely toned, many carte de visite, of varying sizes. |