Lot 152
  • 152

[Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Susan Mary Yeats]--Photographs

Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • [Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Susan Mary Yeats]--Photographs
  • A collection of seven studio photographs of 'Lolly' and 'Lily' Yeats:
  • paper
(i) Lolly, head-and-shoulders, by H. Webb-Jones, Turnham Green, albumen print cabinet card (146 x 96mm), studio name on mount, inscribed on reverse "with love | June 26th 1896 | E.C. Yeats")

(ii) Lily, head-and-shoulders, by Robinson of Grafton Street, Dublin, carte-de-visite collodion print (90 x 57mm), [c.1890s]



(iii) Lily and Lolly together, head-and-shoulders, by Arthur King of Notting Hill, albumen print carte-de-visite (58 x 93), studio name on mount and reverse [c.1900]



(iv) Lily, seated in chair in profile, reading, by Catherine Edmonds of Abingdon Studio of Westbourne Grove, vintage print (103 x 80mm), mounted (size of mount 210 x 164mm), signed by the photographer on the mount, inscribed on the reverse ("with love and good | wishes from | Lily Yeats | Xmas 1900")



(v) Lily, seated, holding her cousin Ruth's daughter Charlotte Lane Poole as an infant, by platinum print (150 x 100mm), under glassine within card folder, note in ink dating the sitting to January 1914



(vi) Lolly, by Chancellor of Dublin, head-and-shoulders, matt silver print (163 x 112mm), mounted (size of mount 276 x 196mm), signed on mount by Lolly ("Elizabeth Corbet Yeats | May 1938"), within folder



(vii) Lolly, by Henry Webb Jones of Chiswick, albumen print cabinet card (95 x 58mm)

Condition


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