[Boswell and Talbot family photograph albums].
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Description
- Title
- [Boswell and Talbot family photograph albums].
- Creator
- Boswell (Family), compiler
- Contributor
- Talbot (Family), compiler.
- Published / Created
- [circa 1860-1916]
- Publication Place
- United Kingdom, Ireland, and Europe
- Abstract
-
Five albums and one box holding portraits of family, friends, and colleagues of the Boswell family of Auchinleck House in Scotland and theTalbot family of Malahide Castle in Ireland. The photographs, primarily carte-de-visites, feature men, women, children, pets, and some members of the nobility, who were photographed in London and other cities in the United Kingdom, as well as in Ireland and Europe. Most of the sitters are unidentified. The albums were once housed in an ebony-veneered storage cabinet owned by James Boswell (1740-1795) and used by him at Auchinleck House. The cabinet was moved to Malahide Castle in the late nineteenth century and used there by the Talbot family
Box 1 contains one album bound with Mauchline ware covers, holding 185 photographs in 23 double-sided leaves; the metal clasps are missing and the portraits are not captioned. Auchinleck House is the central image on the album's front cover; images of other elements of the estate's landscape appear in the four corners, with an image of ferns on the back cover
Box 2 contains one album bound in brown leather over raised gothic panels with metal clasps, holding 42 photographs in 24 double-sided leaves; the portraits are not captioned
Box 3 contains one album with a mother-of-pearl front cover, holding 68 photographs in 24 double-sided leaves; the metal clasps are missing. Most of the portraits are captioned and include surnames Talbot, Lyell, Strickland, Wade, Ford, Hay, Napier, Popham, Cobb, Smythe, de Meesters, and others
Box 4 contains one album with leather covers and metal clasps, holding 40 photographs in 25 double-sided leaves. A few of the portraits are captioned and include surnames Willis, Devonshire, and Lyttelton
Box 5 contains one album with a wood and iron strap front cover and 54 photographs held in 25 double-sided leaves; the back cover and metal clasps are missing. The album has an index in front which lists the names of 33 members of the British nobility but the portraits are not individually captioned
Box 6 holds two folders of loose carte-de-visite photographs, most captioned on versos, accompanying the albums. Also present are six black album leaves with portraits of Italian and British members of the Anglo-Egyptian-Italian Mission to the Senussi in Cyrenaica, July-September 1916, to end a Senussi revolt against the Italians in Libya; included are portraits of Colonel Milo G. Talbot, the leader of the mission, and his associate W. H. Haslam
- Description
-
Talbot family of Malahide Castle, County Dublin, Ireland, including politician and archaeologist James Talbot (1805-1883), fourth Baron Talbot of Malahide in the peerage of Ireland, and first Baron Talbot de Malahide in the peerage of the United Kingdom. In 1873 Talbot married Emily Boswell, a descendant of James Boswell (1740-1795), Scottish lawyer, diarist, author of the Life of Johnson, and owner of Auchinleck House in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Captions in English.
Title devised by cataloger.
Stored in 6 boxes.
Manuscript captions below prints on album leaves. - Provenance
- Bequest of Mary Hyde Eccles, 2004.
- Extent
-
185 photographs in 1 album ; album 31 x 24 cm
42 photographs in 1 album ; album 32 x 25 cm
68 photographs in 1 album ; album 16 x 24 cm
40 photographs in 1 album ; album 16 x 24 cm
54 photographs in 1 album ; album 16 x 24 cm
0.21 linear feet (1 box) - Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- GEN MSS 1317
- Container / Volume
- Box 6
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Portraits
Cabinet photographs 19th century
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Mauchline ware 19th century
Mother of pearl 19th century
Photograph albums Ireland 19th century
Photographic prints 19th century - Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Cyrenaica
- Subject (Name)
-
Boswell family.
Boswell family
Haslam, W. H.
Talbot family.
Talbot family
Talbot, James, 1805-1883.
Talbot, Milo George, 1854-1931
Malahide Castle (Ireland) - Subject (Topic)
- Politics and government
- Subjects
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Boswell family
Boswell family > Portraits
Haslam, W. H. > Portraits
Talbot family
Talbot family > Portraits
Talbot, James, 1805-1883
Talbot, Milo George, 1854-1931 > Portraits
Malahide Castle (Ireland)
Cyrenaica > Politics and government
19th century
Ireland > 19th century
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Photograph Albums Owned by the Boswell and Talbot Families. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 99124783023408651
- Object ID (OID)
- 33483695
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