| Elliott & Fry Sample book for Elliott & Fry 1880 (ca) Sample book Swann Galleries - New York Sale 2345, The Vernacular Eye: Photographic Albums, Snapshots & Objects, 17 April 2014, Lot: 38 LL/53752 An unusual sample book issued by the photographers Elliott and Fry (of London), with composites of the studio's portrait work of famous men and women of arts and letters. Includes royal figures Empress Eugenie and Don Carlos, plus Trollope, Foster, Ruskin, Browning, Tennyson, Carlyle, Swinburn, Emerson, Wagner, stars of the stage who worked with Gilbert and Sullivan, and more. With approximately 1300 tiny thumbnail examples on 28 mounts.
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