VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHY. VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHS albumen prints including Maull & Polyblank (Fl 1855-1865)

VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHY. VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHS albumen prints including Maull & Polyblank (Fl 1855-1865) Mrs Arcedeckne from the series Photographic Portraits of Living Celebrities, arched top, 27.5 x 22.5cm, the photographer's blindstamped mount with label verso, original frame, Samuel Sims (1827-1891) The Ship "Cavalier" after the collision with the "Herman" 1869, 20.5 x 16cm, mounted with photographer's handwritten credit recto and description verso, set of five whole plate photographs of the interior of Newhailes House, Scotland, c1880, in two contemporary frames, Mayer & Pierson of Paris studio photograph of a gentleman seated three quarter length at a table, photographer's original embossed mount and engraved trade label verso, others including cartes de visite and cabinet photographs (one of a fireman), William Slade Stuart (1858-1938) Princess Beatrice (1857-1944) signed by the sitter in ink 'Beatrice 1907', John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845-1914) autograph letter signed August 22 1889, 2.5s, on Osborne House notepaper, an album of 12 mounted half plate silver prints of a clergyman and his family in the grounds of Burleigh House, picnicking, veteran motorcars, etc dated Easter 1914 and others (approximately 40)Mrs Arcedeckne nee Jane Pym (1825-1879) married, two years before his death her bachelor husband Andrew Arcedeckne (1822-1871) of Glevering Hall, Suffolk. A Finsbury baker's daughter, aged 15 her occupation was a 'Hat Trimmer'. Later taking to the stage, she enjoyed considerable success. Her wealthy husband's family's fortune was made in the sugar trade and he was the model for Thackeray's Henry Foker in the History of Pendennis (1848-50).