Auction: Hill and Adamson and others

[Michael Pritchard]

Bonhams book auction on 12 November contains an extraordinary cache of ten Hill and Adamson calotypes; an album featuring work by Dodgson, Cameron and Rejlander; and an image by Le Gray. 

According to Bonhams' catalogue the album was compiled by Rev. F.H. Atkinson, and relates to his family and acquaintances including the Tennyson family, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Rejlander, and locations on the Isle of Wight and Ceylon. It has approximately 165 albumen prints (mostly carte-de-visite portraits, some views, others larger), mounted between one and six per page, mostly captioned (many with cut signatures of sitters pasted beneath), with a 3-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY JOHN RUSKIN (mounted), newspaper cuttings, contemporary morocco, later cloth wrappers with Atkinson arms embroidered on upper cover, 4to, [c.1862-1890s]

Estimate: £4,000-6,000. details here.

The Hill and Adamson calotypes are here and the Gustave Le Gray is here.

Image: Hallam Tennyson, 1862, from the Atkinson album.