F.B. Meredith et alii

with twenty-nine plates by Pinelli, numbered 1-30 in pencil (missing no. 9), five topographical sketches (in ink or watercolour), one engraving of Napoleon, and fifty-nine photographs, various sizes between 59 by 91mm and 217 by 251mm or the reverse, the majority mounted one to a page, contemporary morocco gilt, titled in gilt on the spine, gilt decoration on spine and covers, 4to

The descendants of Sir Charles Talbot.

This album was, it appears, complied by Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.B., R.N., 1801-1876 (see illustration, standing last on right), or a member of his family, and has a strong naval theme. It includes four studies attributed to F.E. Meredith (of HMS Algiers), a salt print entitled 'A Finlander's Cottage in the Alands Isles Ledsund/August 1854' and three Lightly Albumenised Salt Prints of Simon's Bay, South Africa (1859). It includes, among other unattributed photographs, a view of Gibraltar, one of Hong Kong, a view of the crew aboard the Royal Alfred, studies of various British naval ships, a view of Nelson's monument at Great Yarmouth, views of Admiralty House, Sheerness, and Halifax (Nova Scotia), and two landscape studies titled 'Trees on the Sid - Devon' and 'Watergate - Raglan Castle'. There is a small study of the 'Russian Eagle', a double-headed relief from, it is thought, the Russian Admiralty in the Crimea. The album also has a small number of portraits including a study of the 2nd Baron Raglan and his four sons (1867). A small number of the photographs are after paintings or drawings.