1 album (approximately 270 photographs) : albumen prints and salted paper prints, from glass and paper negatives ; album 45 x 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Photographs
Notes:
A smaller album of photographs by Henry Ledger ("Views of England: Torquay, Lewisham, Kent, Yorkshire, etc.") is in the collections of the The J. Paul Getty Museum (84.XA.876.15). A third album ("A month with the camera in the North Highlands of Scotland by an amateur--August 1854") is cited in Impressed by light.
Contents:
Leaf 1. Portrait of Henry Ledger -- 2-4. Hever Castle -- 5-9. Chiddingstone, Kent -- 10-11. Ruins of Brambletye House, Surrey -- 12-14. Beddington, Surrey -- 15-26. Aberdeenshire and Argyleshire, including Braemar, Invercauld Castle, the Water of Feugh -- 27. Beddington Park, Surrey -- 28-38. Kent, including Southborough Commons, Tunbridge Wells, Charlton House, Charlton Church, Wilmington Hall (Dartford), Ightham Mote, Hever Castle, Brasted (church) -- 39. Interior of Wells Cathedral -- 40. Front of Exeter Cathedral -- 41. Cottage in ground of the Earl of Caithness (?) -- 42-45. Devon, including Totnes, the Rivert Dart, Dartmouth Castle, Torquay, Babbecombe, Watcombe, and Berry Pomeroy Castle -- 46-51. Glenthorne, St. Marychurch Road, Torquay; some images include depictions of Henry Ledger and family -- 52-67. Torquay, including Anstey's Cove, Cockington Court, Babbecombe, Valley of St. Marychurch, Watcombe, and Cary Castle -- 68. Sixteen cartes de visite of the Ledger family -- 69-72. Torquay, including Meadfoot, Watcombe, Anstey's Cove -- 73-75. Gilbraltar, including fortifications, by W. Codrington -- 76-77. Smaller photographs, including Raglan, Hyères (France), Watcombe, Upton, Lewisham, and Eltham -- 78-79. Smaller photographs of Kent, including Charlton, Chiselhurst, and Lewisham; with a couple of photographs of Hyères -- 80-95. Torquay, including Watcombe, St. Marychurch, Babbecombe, Maidencombe, the parish church of St. Mary's Church, Torre Abbey, Torquay Harbour, and Cockington Lane; interspersed with photographs of Lewisham, Cary Castle, and "dead game, from Mr. [William] Duffield's pictures." -- 96-100. Portrait photographs, including the Ledger family.