Sotheby's have produced a special catalogue for The Val Prinsep album compiled by Julia Margaret Cameron. A PDF copy can be had by clicking here. The auction takes place on 10 December 2013.
UPDATE: The Prinsep album sold for £242,000 (including buyer's premium) against an estimate of £250,000-£250,000).
The sale also includes the earliest recorded surviving glass negative of one of the Liddell sisters by Lewis Carroll: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/english-literature-history-l13408/lot.244.html and a fine platinum print of W.B. Yeats by Alice Boughton, signed by both the photographer and sitter. http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/english-literature-history-l13408/lot.321.html
UPDATE: Both lots were unsold.
Comments
Thank you for linking the PDF Michael, it provides a good chance to see what I suspect may well disappear from public view.
Are the 'swirl' marks on some of the images really on the pictures ? or are they just a result of the catalog reproduction? If they are really on the pictures I wonder about the cause... storage, or as a result of an original printing problem? Its almost if they were wiped at some point.
A wonderful collection of portraits.